Did you feel the love?
Valentine’s Day celebration was a few days ago. In one way or another, we all received something that day. And even if those from whom you were expecting to receive something from suffered temporary memory loss, perhaps you also received as consolation a greeting card from your real estate broker or your mortgage company.
Television commercials make the expectations for this day way too high, presenting diamonds and luxury cars as the way to show love.
The human concept of love makes its celebration lose meaning. Are we celebrating love or a competition?
Fortunately, we do not have to settle for the definition of love that the world wants to impose on us.
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. – 1 John 4:10
We are so used to receiving only what we deserve, that it is difficult for us to understand that the creator of the universe can love us such a way. Look at the sequence of God’s love.
It is not:
I live a life for God –> I am worthy of God –> I love God –> God forgives me and loves me
But rather:
I live a life of sin –> I do not deserve God –> God loves me and forgives me –> I love God
The world teaches us that great sacrifices must be made in order to please those whom we love. But, there is no sacrifice to be made to earn God’s love. He loved us as we are (Romans 5: 6-8). The only sacrifice was made by his son Jesus Christ with the purpose of freeing us so that we could also love him.
Isn’t it good to know this truth? This love does not need a day in the calendar. You too can feel love.
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