Happy Valentine’s Day DEVO, all you beautiful and loved
children of God~
Today is all about the love.
I myself woke up to a lovely card and calorie-laden chocolate
treat! My husband woke up to well-wishes
and a peck on the cheek.
And everywhere we look we see the evidence of this special
day. Here in Miami
Love, after all, is God’s idea, and it’s a good one.
How do we know we are loved?
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one
and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal
life.”
God loved and then God gave.
Love is a verb; it always does
something.
For the past few DEVO’s we have followed the encounter that
a grieving widow whose son died had with Jesus.
He saw her, He told her not to cry, and then BAM! He touched her son,
and he bolted right up!
What’s the point in saying, “Don’t cry,” unless there is
going to be some kind of follow through to help those tears stop flowing?
It makes perfect sense to me.
May we all get it through our thick heads today that Jesus
is a Savior of action. He gets involved with
words that encourage us and follows through with actions that strengthen our
faith and heal our hearts.
Glory glory hallelujah!
I could tell Jorge “I love you,” all day long, but once in a
while I better cook his favorite dinner, I better control my temper, I better
cheer him on when he’s had a rough day at work and keep my critical comments to
myself etc…etc…etc…In other words, I better prove it. How else would Jorge know that he is the love
of my life? How else would we have known
that God loves us if He had not sent Christ?
How would the widow have felt if Jesus would have told her to stop
crying and then turned around and gone on His merry way with the crowd?
Love gives, love listens, love encourages, love never looks
the other way, and I love it.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, Thank You for loving us. Thank You that Jesus is a Savior of
action. In His name, AMEN~
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