All You Need is Love

In about a week, people all over the world will be declaring their love for one another. This will be done through the giving of gifts, flowers and candy, sending cards, writing poems, dedicating songs and numerous other heartfelt displays of affection. What a great thing, to focus on someone else and make sure that they are sure of your love for them. We all love to get Valentine's, don't we? And if you're like me, you love to give Valentine's just as much if not more than receiving them. I think we should celebrate Valentine's at least once a month - I mean really, once a year is not enough.

Why do we hold back expressing our love for one another? Yet we seem to have no problem with letting our displeasure be known. Why is it so easy to let the criticism fly out of our mouths but to pay a compliment is work? And we are the worst with our own family. Those that we share our lives with are the ones that we take for granted. We all do it. 


God is working on me and hopefully with me to change my ways. I need to walk in love so much more than I do. I need to be aware of my tone of voice and the words that I speak and the wounds they inflict or the healing they provide. I am made in my Lord and Savior's image and God is love, therefore, I am to abound in love. That is how He created me. It goes against my hard wiring to operate in anything but love. Why do you think angry and bitter people are so miserable? It's because we weren't created to be that way, we were created to love. 


The Holy Spirit is correcting and training me and I want to be a good student. So, for this special month of love I am giving myself a little homework. I encourage you to do the same. Here's the assignment... 

Show an expression of love to someone once a day for the rest of February. Hopefully this will go beyond saying "I love you" when you hang up the phone. Challenge yourself, get creative and find a way to show your love. It may be putting a note in your child's backpack, it may be baking cookies for your neighbor, it may be sending an actual snail-mail letter to a friend far away or down the street. 

Let me know what you're doing and how it goes. 


I don't know about you but I want to look like and act like Jesus and He is love, so the more loving I can be the more like Him I will be. 


Now get out there and show some love!