Tuesday, February 14, 2017

“Just an Old Fashioned Love Song” Abundant Grace Valentine

Don’t you just love love songs? How many of them can you sing, at least part of, right off the top of your head? Love has been a key theme of music for millennia. Everyone likes to be in love, to hear it, sing it, hold it in our arms. Love gives us a connection that enhances our life and takes us outside ourselves. After all, “All You Need is Love”. Right?
That is true. We all need love and the most significant love that we all need is the love of God. As the hymnist says, “The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell, it goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell.” It is love that transcends time, space, circumstances, and all obstacles. It is the love that made God send His Only Son, Jesus Christ, to die for all the sinners in the world so that all who believe in Him might have their sins forgiven and come into everlasting life.
The love of God, then, is far beyond the love of an old fashioned love song. Earthly love sometimes fades and sometimes fails. Earthly love can be corrupted by our own selfish desires and destroyed by our own sinful nature. But God’s love cannot be corrupted because it is pure and comes from the One who changes not and whose love is called “the everlasting love”.

As we enter the month of hearts, flowers, and expressions of earthly love, let us not forget the love that is far greater than this. In this love the expense is not ours. We need not, indeed cannot, buy anything or give anything that will gain God’s love. It has been freely given to all who will come to Christ as the Son of God, their Savior from Sin. As we expect the one who receives our Valentine tokens of love to swoon in our arms and respond with pledges of mutual love, let us take the same road with God. Let us fall into His arms of grace and both proclaim and live out our love for Him, not just for this month, but for always.  


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