Valentine's Day Love

In just a few more hours, the day the world celebrates love will dawn.  Valentine's Day.  As I am writing this, I am asking myself, "Who is this Valentine that has a day of celebration for love?"  The stores are over loaded with red hearts, chocolate and roses.  Stuffed toys hold hearts and corny one liners will line the shelves.  Hallmark will see a rise in profits from other halves of couples buying the words of love, written by another.  Yep, Valentine's day is all about the purchase and of course, the "luv".

I am not about to say that Christians should not take that opportunity to say I love you.  What I am proposing is that we take that day as a reminder of real love.  You remember don't you?  The kind of love that not only shows itself as words but as actions.

God showed us this love. John 3:16, For God so loved the world that He gave his only son that whoever will believe in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. 

Dear friend (s), love is an action.  It doesn't end on Feb 15, packed away until the next Feb 14th.  Love should never fail or fade.  Love is not about the getting, remember it is not self-seeking. Love is more than chocolates and roses.  Love is God.

1John 4:7 -8

God’s Love and Ours

⁷ 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.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%204:7%20-%2021&version=NIV