Today is Valentine’s Day for
those who aren’t aware of it. And since today is a day of love for most people,
I decided to talk a bit about love. Not the mushy, butterfly, emotion filled kind
of love but agape love; the God kind of love.
Valentine is a big deal for a
lot of people. It’s a day they get flowers, chocolate, teddy bear, ice cream, poems,
and whatever extras but whenever I read the valentine story, I realize it was
so different from what we practice today.
That being said, here is a link
to St’ Valentine’s story on my blog; see it… http://sureboy.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-valentines-story.html
This blog is actually for those
of you who don’t have a “valentine”… no flowers, no chocolate, no text/call. I
want you to know that you actually have more than that.
Our human society have only set aside a day to show love but God doesn't do that. He loves you every single day whether it’s February 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th
or 14th and if there were February
37th He would still love you on that day too.
Allow me to ask you this
question… do you really believe that
you’re loved by God? Not just knowing it in your head but do you actually
believe deep down in your heart that you are loved, cherished, wanted, pursued,
and adored?
I don’t think many people
actually believe that. We turn to hear
about the love of God so much that it doesn't even move us anymore but God’s
love is for real.
Picture this! God… the creator
of the universe, the same God who was here before anything was here, the same
God who created you and every other person on the planet literally got off His
throne, came down to earth, lived a sinless life and died a shameful death all
for love.
I don’t know what that means to
you but that for me means everything. God’s love is unlike any love and He is willing to go all the way to prove
His love for us.
Now on valentine, I really do
not think it is a bad idea but I do feel the idea of celebrating love once in a
year is horrible. If we only celebrate love one day, what happens to the remaining
364 days in the year?
I know some of you want to be
cuddled, taken out on a date and have all those other beautiful stuff
synonymous with valentine and hey, there’s nothing wrong with that but I don’t
want your desire for that to distract you from experiencing real love.
You can have all the boxes of chocolate in the world but if
you do not have a relationship with Jesus I’m afraid you cannot know love; neither can you experience real love. Christ is the
beginning and the end of love.
He loves you regardless of who
you are, what you did or didn't do and nothing…. absolutely nothing will ever
keep Him from loving you so now tell me, how
you found true love yet? Real genuine love is only found in God not in a
human.
Our
identities aren't wrapped up in what happens to us on Valentine’s Day. Our
Identities are wrapped up in the love that our Savior gives.
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