Love is something so powerful. I do believe that love can change the world completely around, I believe it because I've seen it. First of, I should mention that the day of celebrating Love is coming up. But we've got it all wrong. Saint Valentines were people who were martyred in Rome. Many Valentines were martyred for believing in God. For giving up their lives to serve His name. For refusing to conform to the pattern of this world and therefore transforming it in their whole surrender. It was something beautiful, something pure. Something wonderful. I do remember, my AP English teacher talking about Saint Valentine-a man who died for God. It's all gotten pretty skewed right? Don't get me wrong, I'm a hopeless romantic. My stomach drops when I see chick-flicks, and I wish I could swoon to a dashing man coming to my rescue. Nevertheless, I've seen love-true love-change the world completely around. And so have all of us. It's all around us. Two thousand years ago-a man who was desperately in love-breathtakingly, painstakingly in love died for that very same love. It was the ultimate sacrifice, the ultimate gift-Love. He died for Love-and in that process gave Love. Two thousand years ago-a man named Jesus of Nazarene died for you and me. He died for a sinful world. For a world full of selfishness, greed and lust. He died for all the things you do wrong. He died for all the things you keep hidden from everyone-He died so that you wouldn't have to. He died-because He loves You. No matter where you come from, no matter what you did and what you will do, His love for you will never diminish not even one iota. His love for You is endless. He is Love. He is the Love that is spoken of in 1 Cor. 13. He is that Love. His love changed the world forever-It changed our fate, our destiny-our punishment. He did, for us. So on Sunday, February the 14th-I won't beat myself up for being single and "unpursued". Because the Lover of all times-the Ultimate Pursuer is pursuing me. He loves me. More than anyone ever could and more than anyone ever will. But not just me. He loves you too. He loves every inch of you.
Will you let him in?
Will you open yourself up to an unfathomable Love?
Will you care to be
pursued?
By the perfect Love that
never fails.[1 Cor. 13: 1-8a]
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails.
