Valentine's Day

I used to love valentine's day because of romance, etc. However, as my faith deepens and understand more and more each day I understand that GOD IS LOVE.

Valentine's Day is a wonderful day; and even greater day to show what LOVE is. Love is the foundation of Christianity. The two greatest commandments 1) LOVE God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and all your strength and 2)LOVE your neighbor as yourself. Then in marriage a husband must LOVE his wife and wife must RESPECT her husband Eph 5:33. Whoever LOVES God must also LOVE his brother.

I love the book of 1 John! It does an incredible job of describing God's love and how we are to love and how we CAN love. 1 John 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

1 John 4:7-21

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. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

¹³ This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. ¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. ¹⁷This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. ¹⁸There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

¹⁹ We love because he first loved us. ²⁰ If we say we love God yet hate a brother or sister, we are liars. For if we do not love a fellow believer, whom we have seen, we cannot love God, whom we have not seen. ²¹ And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love one another.

Enjoying showing God's love to others this Valentine's Day!