The Language of Love...

Language is basic to us all. It is the way we let others know who we are and how they tell us. Don't you love when someone shares their heart with you? Or when someone recognizes something about you and is able to express it so clearly that it blesses you? Or even when a friend tells you something and though it is painful to hear you receive it in such a way that it helps you? So is the Language of Love from God.

Today many Pastors and scholars have devised "Love Languages" they encourage us to find our "love Language" and then speak to others in their "Love language". Can I tell you there is someone who knows all of our "love languages" and speaks to us clearly, lovingly and powerfully enough to change us. God's language is Christ. He is the Word or in Greek Logos

In John's Gospel he begins "in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God" John 1:1
The "Logos" or Word here in the original language of Greek means intelligence and "word" as the expression of that intelligence. It comes from Lego which means to speak. Jesus in His preincarnate state is called "ho Logos," The Word, "Meaning first, immaterial intelligence and then, the expression of that intelligence in speech that humans can understand" (from the Key Word Bible #3056) Christ displays the mind and heart of God The Father so we can understand.
It is important to see what does John means by "beginning"? ...when does that take place? In the original Greek there is no definite article it is more like "In beginning". What beginning does this mean?....we can think of many beginnings here...beginning of the world (Matt 24:21 or Gen 1)) ; the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus (Mark 1:1) or maybe the beginnning of creation...but really because there is no definite article it is designed to carry us back to the most remote point that can be imagined. Before creation there was the Word. Jesus was before there was specific time. He was there in eternity.

The Father began creation as He spoke (Logos)...He said "let there be" and "all things were made by Him". Who is the Him? Christ brought form and substance to The Father's creation. As God the Father chose to express His creative character, the Word became something conclusive and established. Christ reveals to us the mind of God. He has made the incomprehensible God intelligible.
That is why He says "If you have seen me you have seen the Father". Hebrews tells us "God who has spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways in these last days has spoken to us in His Son" Christ not only was the first, the Alpha but He is also the last, Omega. Those are the first and last letters of the alphabet. Jeus is the A through Z...He puts God's mind, thoughts and power into language that we can undestand and see.

The Word, Jesus Himself, is God's language to us...that is how we hear God's words, we see Him, we can relate to Him and it is the way God chose to manifest Himself to the world.

What are the Scriptures ? "They are the Word of God". Jesus said the Scriptures spoke about Him! Scripture tells us of Christ's coming, His life and His return. The Scriptures: reveal God's mind to send the Son, express His will for the perfect sacrifice and proclaim His Son as Lord of all. As Christ lay in the manger God's Love Language was clearly seen and at the Cross it was fully expressed. He held no words back!

How well do we know God's love language? Experts who are trying to match love languages between people, do it with the goal of communicating better. Their hope is that we find each other's love language and speak to each other more clearly and lovingly. But there is One who speaks the true love language and it is perfect and He speaks with power and gentleness. He is Jesus...the Alpha and Omega...the One who speaks to you from the manger and from the cross...He is the living Word who can speak to us...are we listening?