~Lovest Thou Me More Than These?~

Love is defined by Dictionary.com as 

• a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person,
• a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
• a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
• affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor. the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.

As we live in the modern day, love, is a term that is thrown carelessly around to portray our strong feeling towards something or someone. What once took time to earn, it is now given with no heart felt feeling. Than when the time comes to portray how feelings, we lack a better word. We give love to those things that cannot provide any emotional support to us. We love food, possessions, movies, cars, books, songs, etc...yet none of these can return the feeling. We love addictions...internet, alcohol, drugs, sex....yet these addictions only take us down the road of eternal doom. We love our possessions, and yet these things can disappear quickly and these "things" provide only temporary comfort. We place faith in those things we love and are often heart broken and distraught when these things fail to bring us continuous happiness.  
The Bible mentions "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends". If I lined up all the "friends" that I have, how many of them would lay down their life for me? I can tell you that I can count them on one hand. While we proclaim to love someone and do things that we feel communicates this feeling, do they have faith that we as a friend would make the ultimate sacrifice? 
Love is a word that express feeling and meaning, that have been bunched into one word when all other words are seemingly inappropriate to express what we are feeling. Although words are kind to the ears, actions are food to the soul. With words so carelessly thrown around, actions are the backbone to the communication that we use.
So lovest thou Me more than these???