"GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS, THAN TO LAY DOWN ONE'S LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" JOHN 15:13
Jesus is the sweetest gift this valentines day!
I am still internalizing the message I heard yesterday at my church. It was so good and I am very grateful that I can ask God to sculpt in me a LOVE that is not my own.
When we have personally experienced the LOVE of God in our lives we know and have tasted His sweetness during our hurting moments and the times we have really messed up our lives.
God will always love us personally and up close. He knows all of our weaknesses and every crack of imperfection and still loves us.
God loves us permanently, His love is not performance based.
God loves without partiality, His love does not show favoritism.
In today's world it's so hard to experience a love from others that is personal, permanent and without favoritism. A love that is WHOLE and TRUE all of the time. To top it all off, God's LOVE is transforming!
How is that box of chocolate?
Have you experienced Gods love in a way that made you whole?
Have you chosen Gods Love and forgiveness?
When Gods LOVE and FORGIVENESS comes inside of us then a sweet LOVE in which we tasted will become our natural expression and then others will experience this same LOVE!
Valentines Day then becomes part of our everyday natural expression!
God enables us to love the hurting people, He strengthens us to love the people that are different then us and most importantly God helps us SEEK to LOVE the people that have messed up their lives!
Oh and guess what else? WE ALL ARE MESS UPS and God still CHOSE to call us friends!
It is not easy to LOVE those who have hurt you or those that are different.
Today we will give or receive a box of chocolate, roses and or a card to or from those whom we LOVE.
How can we extend Christs love to those hurting, those that have hurt us or those that are just plain DIFFERENT? That presents a challenge to the day of LOVING!
Sometimes loving those that have hurt us, just means we need to forgive and let go. Send the hurt away, let God take the emotion and deal with it for you. Hand the pain and hurt over to God my friend. This could in return be the BEST valentines day ever for you!
Allow Gods love to make you WHOLE!
When we have experienced this transformation it drives us to love the hurting, the different and the ones that have messed up.
Christs LOVE will enable you to LOVE the ones that have hurt you personally. I have experienced this transformation and I know that's why I have a heart to love others that hurt due to betrayal.
BETRAYAL HURTS and FORGIVENESS does not come easy.
Gods love is powerful and covers a multitude of sins. Allow God to COVER you with His love and then show you how to COVER the sins of others with a DIVINE LOVE.
Have a great Valentines day friends and I pray you experience Gods LOVE personally, permanently and without partiality!
Like I said it's the BEST box of chocolate and the sweetest you'll ever taste!
"TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD..." Psalm 34:8
Happy Love Day,
Heather
