FRIDAY February 14, 2020

Valentine’s Day

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:7-8

Have you allowed yourself to fall in love with God? Then you will not be the same person you used to be. So many people have fallen away from their first love––Jesus Christ. The Apostle John speaks about God’s divine love. God is Light, God is a Spirit, and God is Love. People try to reach out and touch God, but He has to touch us with His love.

It is important to know that there are four types of love found in the Bible. They are communicated to us through four different Greek words: Eros, storge, philia, and agape. The first Greek word eros is a romantic love; storge relates to family love; philia is a brotherly love, and God's divine agape love is a perfect and unconditional love. God can give to us His love for other people individually. He enables us to love unconditionally our brothers and sisters in Christ, and even our enemies. People in the world do not know how to love like this.

Imagine, God’s love has been given to us. Jesus demonstrated that love when He died on the Cross for our sins: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). When God’s love comes into your life, you are going to melt and humble yourselves before Him.

We need God’s love in our lives. Have you ever experienced the love of God? People need to know Him intimately and by experience––because God is love. The real proof of God’s love is in the Holy Scriptures; the character of God is declared by the Holy Spirit––God is Love.

This Valentine’s Day, I hope you come to know the love of God, and then you can truly love your spouse, a boyfriend or girlfriend, and everyone else around you.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
~John 3:16~

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