This is the day when many shine the spotlight on what we would consider love. However I myself do not find Valentine’s Day equivalent to love. I believe there could be a correlation to Valentine’s Day expressions and love. But I don’t believe it is a cause and effect relationship. Many people agree with this statement but it is always nice to have that third party variable that shows love. I wonder what people consider love to be. What do you think love encompasses? Is it heterosexual or is it straight? Is it sex or is it waiting? Is marriage or is it singleness? Is it obedience or is it defiance? Is it giving up or is it holding on? Can it be found in many or can it be found in one? These questions are of a deeply inquisitive nature but merely play off of what love is.
The who, what, where, when’s and how’s of love is not sufficient to define love. You have to concretely define it. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful, proud, or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). Love is great and we are human. When we love we get closer to the essence of God. There is nothing greater and there is nothing more powerful. It is not usually love that is the issue but our use of love that is often misguided, misused and sometimes confused. Please do not give up on love. For without love you nothing. God is love. Peace, love and never hurt.
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