Just a little something I wrote last Valentine's Day (2012).
For
the first time in my twenty three years of life, I have a boy here on
earth who will call me his valentine tomorrow. Forever I thought of
Valentine's Day as a silly holiday-Actually, I think I had a bitterness
towards the day. I always joked about the day but deep down I was
dreaming of the day I would actually have someone shower me with love on
that day.
This
year I am finding love in the day not only because I have a boy to
spend the day with but because it suddenly hit me that for all twenty
three years of my life I've had the ultimate Valentine every single day
of my life. I have a Savior that died for me. He knows the depths of
my heart and He still continues to love me. He knows my every thought
and move, and HE STILL LOVES ME. He'll always love me. It's kind of
crazy to think that I've spent so many years being slighty bitter about a
holiday of love when all along I've had the greatest love of all. I
am so overwhelmed that I have a God who sent His only Son to this earth
to live a perfect life just so that he could be persecuted and condemned
for loving others; He was nailed to a cross to become the ultimate
sacrifice for my sins and rose again so that I can live for eternity.
None
of us should feel unloved today or tomorrow or any day because we all
have the greatest love of all, a love that has no depth or end, "a love
that surpasses knowledge" (Ephesians 3:19), AN EVERLASTING LOVE!
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
"Beloved,
let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has
been born of God and knows God. Anyone whoe does not love does not know
God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest
among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might
live through him. IN this love, not that we have loved God but that he
loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved,
if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever
seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is
perfected in us." 1 John 4:7-12
This year (2013), I have a HUSBAND for my Valentine- one who shows me amazing love daily- and I am
SO blessed. I thank God for Seth daily, sometimes hourly. But Seth and
I are both human, and we fail each other. Praise God for the gift
of forgiveness, grace, and mercy.
While Seth will only be my Husband and Valentine for my days here on earth, one thing will always remain the
same- I have a perfect, unfailing Valentine for eternity. One who
knew me before I entered my mother's womb, and I praise my Father in
Heaven this day and forevermore!
