Valentine’s Day

There’s an old R&B song where the hook says, ‘Who do you love, are you sure?’ I can’t remember who recorded it but LL Cool J sampled it years later in a song called ‘Loungin. I don’t know why this song stuck in my head today.  The LORD works in mysterious ways…

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, where candy and flowers will abound.  But, when I look around and listen to the news, I can’t help but wonder if we really have any idea what real love is or what it does!

Much like the old spiritual song that says, ‘everybody talkin’ ‘bout heaven ain’t going.’ Real love is a mystery.  Rooted in convenient affections and comfortable transactions- what we call love is hardly recognizable when compared to the biblical definition.

Love is selfless, humble, durable, and resilient.  Love is willful and transformative to both the giver and the recipient.  Love goes out of its way and shows up. Love is gracious and kind.  

So, who do YOU love? Are you sure? How do those you say you love know it?  How do you know you are loved?  

God loves us.  God proves God’s love by keeping God’s promises – presence, provision, and protection!  God proves God’s love through persistence that endures even our imperfections… That’s love!  Love like that!

So, who do YOU love?  Are you sure?  Do the people YOU love know it?  Tell them… Show them… again and again!

In the words of MJB, ‘I’m looking for a real love…’

⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never ends.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (ESV)

Good Morning, I love you all.

ihs,

just adam