Stop Talking And Start Loving!

So this post is directed to anyone who considers themselves a believer in Christ.  Obviously everyone is welcome to read, but I wanted to make that point clear since this is not directed at everyone who will read this.  I'm not throwing stones, just making a point from something that I have been wrestling with myself.

We have a tendency to talk a lot about Jesus, but have harder time acting like Him.  We want to hit people with "what the Bible says", but we ourselves often fail at living what it says.  It is easy to tell someone, "Jesus loves you!", but often times we ourselves can't love that same person.

My point is quite simple today and comes in the form of a challenge.  What if starting today, for just one week, we stopped talking to people about Jesus and simply started to love people like He did?  He asked us to love our neighbors.  What if we just did that? What if we didn't just tell people about His mercy, but we actually showed mercy like he did to the woman who was caught in adultery?  What if we stopped trying to shove our verbal message down everyone's throat and simply stepped back, humbled ourselves and allow His love to reflect from us by our actions?

So I wonder, and hope you do too, what would happen if we just stopped talking and started loving?