Hello, dear one!
You’ve had this experience, haven’t you?
You so admire and appreciate someone who never fails to sing “Love you” at the end of each gathering or conversation, but when you reached out in need, the person was not available.
The education system has programmed humans to always say the right things so that no one’s feelings are hurt. So there goes the kind words and often accompanied by empty actions.
The animals have perpetually taught humans: Action speaks louder than words.
These pictures went viral during the lockdown.
In a village in Assam, India, a farmer bought this cow. The village people were used to dogs barking at night, but when the dogs barked consistently, they thought of thieves at night.
To catch the thief in action, they installed a camera, and weren’t they shocked!
Every night, a leopard visited this cow. They would lick each other affectionately.
Out of curiosity, the farmer who bought the cow visited the man who sold the cow to him. It turned out that this cow was a savior to the leopard.
When the baby leopard was only 20 days old, his mother died. The previous farmer brought the baby leopard to the cow. The cow nursed and raised the baby leopard.
After the leopard was old enough to be on his own, the farmer set him free in the forest.
However, the leopard never forgot his mother. Every night, he visited his mother cow.
After the cow was sold to the new farmer, he searched and found the cow, and continued to visit her every night.
The daily visits were enough for the leopard to show his love and gratitude to his mama.
Doesn’t this story warm your heart naturally? Maybe even make you chuckle at the times when you were so offended by someone’s words, rather than looking at the actions behind the words?
Now, what was the first and the greatest commandment Jesus gave?
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (Matthew 22:37).”
God’s love is unconditional, and often, wordless.
The cow didn’t analyze the situation, the possible gain or loss. She loved the baby leopard with all her heart through her nursing, licking, and embracing.
Jesus despised the “educated and righteous” hypocrites. He described them as the busy bees who were busy cleaning the outside of the cup to make themselves look good, but inside, they were filthy and full of greed and self-indulgence (Mathew 23:25).
This was how Jesus taught the hypocrites a lesson of love in action.
After returning from the Mount of Olives where he prayed regularly, he went to the temple courts, and people gathered around him.
The high officers and the lawmakers brought in a woman who was caught in adultery.
Jesus’ compassion had troubled the spirits of these hypocrites so much that they attempted to use this woman to trap Jesus.
They contended, “In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such woman. Would do you have to say?”
Jesus bent down towards the ground and started writing on the ground with his finger. At that moment, he sought God for an ingenious way to save this woman and to teach the hypocrites.
But these people repeatedly tested Jesus with the same question. Finally, he slowly stood up and asked them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her (John 8:7).”
Jesus then stooped down and wrote on the ground.
He left these unscrupulous hypocrite in silence.
The hypocrites were too afraid of airing out their dirty laundries that they began to leave the crowd, one after the other.
Finally, the whole plaza was emptied, leaving only Jesus and the adulterous woman. He blessed her and sent her home.
Jesus saved this woman by getting involved with an action.
The next time you reach out in need, just watch the actions in return.
And if someone needs a hand, you now know what to do.