14/02/2019
Happy St. Valentineās Day?
Going straight to the point⦠Everyday should be Valentineās Day for a Christian and to burst your bubbles my dear family St. Valentine shouldnāt be a standard in expressing your love to your loved ones because we already have someone who is and will always be a standard when it comes to the matter of the heart, body, mind and soul who needs no introductionā¦donāt tell me you still havenāt gotten who Iām talking about.
Okay then let us start by answering these questions; Who is always there for you when your heart is broken and you have no other person to turn to? Who understands you better despite your short comings and takes you the way you are when others canāt even stand you and they complain but He teaches you the right path to go with love UNDERSTANDING who you real are? Who covers your shame when you canāt pay the bills on time or you are found wanting for as little as N50 to pay for a biscuit? I can go on and on unless you donāt have a relationship with this Guy Who happens to be the lover of our soulsā¦Yeah if you have a relationship with Him then youāll know Who Is Jesus or you think He doesn't do all these things?.
Paul the Apostle by the leading of the Holy Spirit shared in 1 Corinthians 13 and I quote āIf I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If 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 do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Jesus is love and will always be not St. Valentine.
We should celebrate love everyday same goes with Christmasā¦well thatās another topic entirely.
So, I implore you, tell your beloved today, could be your children or your spouse or even your neighbour that āI love you because you mean a great deal to meā
Happy with Jesus all the time and all the way.
Shalom