💘Valentine's Day.....to some it means showing the one they love how special they are, giving your Love flowers, chocolates, jewelry etc
💙Valentine's Day....to others it means disappointment, that their Love forgets, or doesn't give what all the media and stores are telling them they should be receiving IF they were really loved.
💔Valentine's Day ....for some it means pain, heartache, a reminder that their Love is no longer with them, whether the individual or the relationship has died. Either way it is a painful reminder of what they have lost.
To me I want all the red, and pink, the hearts and the rest to remind me.....that I have been given the greatest Valentine ever!
📖 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
That is LOVE
THIS is love!
📖 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10
But because we are given such an amazing Valentine, we are to pass it on to others.
📖 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:11
IF we love one another...His love is complete IN US
📖 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:12
See, our love cannot be complete unless we pass on God's love to others. That doesn't mean romantic love, but genuine love, caring about an individual, beyond their choices, their beliefs.
📖 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:16-18
We live out God's commands as evidence of our love for Him, which means loving all.
📖 We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. 1 John 4:19-21
It is easy to love those being kind to us, those who agree with us, believe what we believe, worship how we worship, but what about the many others?
📖 “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Luke 6:32-36
IF we can love all others as Christ loves us we will be showing the world God's love....and giving those we meet the best Valentine ever!
My prayer🙏
📖 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ❤️ 1 John 4:7-9
His Love is perfect!
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