People can only love you within their capacity. It takes all types of people to make the world go around, and our gifts are what helps to make us each unique. In other words, everyone expresses love, and receives love in a different way. Love is not only a word, but is a word of action! It is a form of communication. Our love language is not strictly related to our romantic endeavors; it is also how we love ourselves, our God, and humanity.
Here are the five love languages:
Words of affirmation
Quality time
Physical touch
Acts of service
Receiving gifts
A person can have more than one love language. Your love language is not something that you choose, it is a gift that chooses you! Service is my natural love language. Helping others is something that brings me joy! I never knew the full value of being a resource until I became involved in my community. The love language of service is as rewarding, as it is challenging. It requires a heart of compassion and a willingness to deal with people of all walks, backgrounds and beliefs. Sometimes people who are in need of help the most reject it. This is what makes the act of service so important. If a person only helps those whom they like, or those whom they are in agreement with, then they have misunderstood the love language of service.
Martin Luther King Jr., understood this more than any of us. Consider what he was up against during his time on this earth. If you think injustice is bad now, MLK Jr. had it worse, much worse! Not only was he called to serve, but along with that came the willingness to work with people who did not share his vision. Everyone was not on board with equality and racial justice, and everyone did not understand why this was needed. Contrary to popular belief, Dr. King was not always embraced. He worked diligently to convince people of color, and people in power why the good fight was necessary. This means his work...or service, had to be done with a love that could pierce the belly of hate, condemnation and injustice. Dr. King had to stand before men who hated him; who were firmly against his cause. This is further example of what the love language of service entails. Helping others does not always equate to providing them with material things. For some, the help is in providing understanding, encouragement, and hope, in times of adversity and despair. Service is about being committed to the cause of helping God's people. All of his people. Despite your personal feelings or matters of convenience.
We would be foolish if we forget that Martin Luther King Jr. was a black man, who lived in a segregated and racist community. In other words, all hell was breaking loose. Churches were burned. Nooses were hung. Innocent men, women and children became victims of violence. Some of us when the going gets tough, we get going and do not become involved. It would have been easy for him to wave his white flag and just go home. During his generation, his mere presence was intimidating. He was a black man, and a visionary who was initially hated and rejected. He could have went back home, and focused on his family and friends only. He could have let the voiceless fend for themselves. He could have did something else, something much easier, safer and less controversial with his time. Let us be clear: He did NOT have to answer the call. Yet he choose to serve anyway. He chose to help anyway. He chose to love anyway. This is what the legacy and life of Martin Luther King Jr. is truly about. The love language of service.
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