The second month of the year has a way of bewitching us with its promise of romance. But all the excitement of this season is short lived depending on your relationship status. There are only two ways to play February's "Love Song."
If Cupid was kind you will celebrate Valentines Day with roses, champagne, and chocolates. But if the arrow of love missed its mark you will be hiding out in your room eating a quart of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream depressed and alone.
I have been on both sides of this melody.
In reality there is only one love that really lasts...the love our Heavenly Father has for us. His love is unconditional. Our good or bad performance has nothing to do with it. He doesn't take his love away because we have made some bad choices. He doesn't stop caring about us because we have bad habits that we can't (or won't) give up. He loves us even though we don't deserve it.
Many of us have a very rigid view of God and tend to think he is angry with us most of the time. As hard as it is to imagine God actually sings over us. He rejoices over us! Faulty and messed up as we are the Lord faithfully loves us, forgives us, encourages us, and patiently leads us into a life of freedom and peace 365 days of the year.
The Lord your God is in your midst,
the Mighty One will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with his love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 (NKJV)
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