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Love is a Verb

Anyone who knows me knows that it's no secret that I love John Mayer. In fact, he is probably my favorite artist. A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to one of my favorite songs from his most recent album. In the song, "Love is a Verb," he sings, "when you show me your love, I don't need your words." While I honestly don't know where John Mayer's personal life with Christ stands, I think he got it right with this lyric. 1 John 3:18 says, "...let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth." Do you see the resemblence? I can't be sure John Mayer consults the Bible when he sits down to write, but in that moment, I can tell you he hit a Christian principle right on the head. 1 John 4:19 says "we love because He first loved us." Jesus is love. He's the reason for it and the only way we know it. It only makes sense that we spend our days loving just as He does. The Bible is full of examples of the way th...