Every year on February 14, our eyes feast on pink and red hearts, our noses on the sweet smelling aroma, and our stomach on the box of chocolates that our parents just gave to us. But what is our mind feasting on?
Are we dwelling on an earthly pleasures? Are we focusing on the love (or like) that we get from our significant other? Are we celebrating St. Valentine? Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with those things...in fact I love receiving a small gift from mom and dad in the morning, I do think about someone special on valentines day, and I'm sure St. Valentine was a great man, but have we forgotten who is love? When you celebrate today, remember your TRUE LOVE.
God created love.
God is love.
God taught you how to love.
1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If 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 have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love 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. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When 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 childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor 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.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13
