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How are you expressing yourself I wonder? Are you happy and outgoing or miserable and sad? Do people look at you and see that there is something different about you, or think that you are the same as everyone else. 

I want you to picture this. You are in your favorite sports team's stadium. You are looking at the scoreboard and you see your name up there. The only way to get a point is expressing your faith through love. Do you want to sit and see a blank scoreboard? Or do you want to see yourself with a pint? 

Paul writes this: "The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love." (Galatians 5:6)

This verse really got me thinking. When I thinking of counting, I think of a scoreboard. If everything you did was visible on a large scoreboard, the only thing that would count is you expressing your faith through love...

Having faith in God is believing without seeing. Did you know that you are supposed to express your faith through love? I know that we are supposed to love others but I never really thought about expressing our faith in God through love. 

Expressing faith through love is what gets noticed. Like what I was talking about earlier...when people notice something different about you, it's clear that you are expressing your faith through love. 

I am sure that you can think of some people right now in your life who are like this. No matter what is thrown at them they always seem to be level headed. Nothing seems to get them off track. A couple people come to my mind and I was always so encouraged by them. 

Before I got to this point in my life where I pray that I am that to other people, I was encouraged by those who expressed their faith through love. I remember asking these people why they were always so happy all the time and every time they answered, their answers involved Jesus. 

I've never once heard someone who really has it together and someone I look up to not give credit to God. I am sure there are some people out there who are that way, but I haven't met any of them yet. 

Having faith in God is something that is so powerful that it only makes sense that you have faith out of love. Then you express that faith in a loving of life sort of way.

I encourage you to express yourself. Express your faith in love...that is the only thing that counts.

Before you go to sleep tonight, close you eyes and image yourself in your favorite stadium. Did you get your point today?

Get your point...it's an important one to get.