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Day 3 What Language Am I Speaking?

Gary Chapman’s The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts has become a relationship sensation in a culture so profoundly structured around hashtag “couples goals.” How Gary dissects and assesses a person’s love language is almost fine-tuned to science. To many, it has become a modern-day manual for relationships of sorts. I highly recommend it to any couple striving to maintain lasting love.

But what about the single Christians that have not discovered love – that is, undiscovered love – in another human being? Do they not have a language? When compared to those that have found love in another human being, are singles to be shoved into obscurity because their language has a perceived barrier? No. I believe that single Christians have much to communicate with married Christians.

The apostle Paul states that when Christians are single, they possess the maximum potential to have an unrestricted devotion to Jesus. Therefore, I believe the love language of the single is not physical touch, acts of service, words of affirmations, gifts, surprises, or quality time, but unrestricted devotion to the One whose love ran red for us all.

This free devotion should not be perceived as a consolation prize, however. After all, we are encouraged by Jesus Christ to love the Lord our God with all of our hearts, soul, and mind. Which, by the way, is one-half of the proverbial Golden Rule.