Communicate Effectively

Mark 12:29 ... “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. 30 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second like it is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Our God-given purpose is to grow in healthy loving relationship with Him nurturing a healthy love for ourselves while living it out toward other people. In large part, this consists in growth of the ability to communicate well with God, with other people, and with yourself.

Love has the affect and effect it should when communicated well through both words and actions. Healthy loving efforts devoid of articulate communication can easily be misconstrued. And, kindly affectionate words are meaningless without follow-through of healthy loving efforts.

Healthy communication is a learned skill.

Ephesians 4:15 but, speaking the truth in love, [we] may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.