Ahhhh... Valentine's Day. The day millions of people across the nation will dawn their best outfit, make reservations at a fancy restaurant, give/receive flowers, and eat a lot of chocolate. Believe me, I work at a candy store. There is a lot of chocolate given today. But why?
If you read my post last week, I challenged you to read 1 Corinthians 13 every day for one week.
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these in love." -- 1 Corinthians 13
This love looks a lot different than the love that the world portrays in cheesy chick flicks and the shallow imitations we try to live out. This love comes from God, because God is love (1 John 4:8). God shows this love to us daily: from the sun that rises to the breath in your lungs. This love always points back to that day on the cross: that while you were still a sinner, an enemy of the King, He chose to die for you so that you would not have to be punished for your crime. He chose that out of love. Because HE is patient and kind, HE does not envy or boast, HE is not arrogant or rude.
God allows us to share in this love as well! He has given us hearts with passions and desires for other men and women that He has created. What a glorious idea that He allows us to love others! So whether you're reading this with a significant other (hubby, wife, fiance, boyfriend, girlfriend) or utterly single, celebrate that God allows us to love. Take the time to celebrate His love for you, but also go ahead and celebrate those He has placed in your life that you love as well.
Happy Valentine's Day!
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