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February 8, 2024
WEEK 24: What is Love?
Next week, Wednesday, is Valentine’s Day - a day dedicated to love. Americans show their love on that day with cards, candy, flowers, dinners out, jewelry, and other tokens of affection. Last year, people spent almost $26 billion dollars on Valentine’s Day with candy being the most popular gift - over 58 million pounds of it! A lot of effort goes into showing love on Valentine’s Day. The gifts and tokens of affection are tangible expressions of an emotion. But love, true love, is more than just an emotion. Love is an action, a commitment.
This year, February 14 is also Ash Wednesday. It seems a bit incongruent that love and repentance are celebrated on the same day. But it is a perfect mesh, after all God is Love. Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent – a time of reflection on the broken relationship we have with our Heavenly Father. God was determined to mend that relationship because He loves us. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Christ’s love for us compelled Him to sacrifice Himself to mend that broken relationship.
What is love? “This is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10).
Wednesday, celebrate love – love for spouses, love for family, but also love with God.
God's Blessings,
Delaine Schiestel
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