Happy Valentine's Day! I'm really not that big into celebrating Valentine's day, well other than making some homemade valentine's this year. But this day always brings me back to the only place that I truly belong . . . the foot of the cross! I always take at least an hour out of my day on Valentine's day for a date with the Greatest Lover of them all.
1 John 4: 7-19
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 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 him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There 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. We love because he first loved us.
I just love this passage. The biggest thing is just that all love comes from God. It is not self generated. And that excites me because all I need to do is love God and ask Him for me to show His love to others. And it all came at the expense of Jesus. Every day I am blown away by the sacrifice that Jesus paid to allow us eternal fellowship and life with Him. For Him to take my sins and heap them on himself is unconditional love. I love that grace and mercy!
I am so thankful for my family and friends, for my health, for the ability to enjoy the things I love doing, for nature (oh man, I love nature), and even for being in Stettler. I know for a fact beyond any shadow of a doubt right now that I am supposed to be here for a reason only God knows. There have been times in the past couple weeks that I seriously did not want to be here, and I still don't but instead of complaining I need to find joy in these circumstances. Joy that can only come from knowing and loving my Saviour.
I love all of you that read this thing and I hope that you can find this same love for our God not only today but every day and forever!
Later days!
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