Love, loving, Lover...I will admit I have never and will probably never be a huge Valentines Day person. While it is great to take the time to stop and show someone you love them, I honestly feel it is just another day created to spend money we do not need to spend on things we really do not need, and I would rather have the unexpected times with others, unexpected gifts, random notes of thankfulness, and the daily knowings someone cares and loves me, but that is personal preference.
However, I was reminded this year that love, that deep intimate, passionate feeling, is in us and is part of us because the Creator of man is constantly luring us, wooing us, passionately pursuing us. The Creator of Love is our Lover. It is so easy to see Him as our Father, our Provider, our Healer, our Saviour, but as our Lover, we as humans struggle. I truly believe it is because our society has so disfigured and sexualized love and lover that seeing our Father in the position of our Lover, we can not grasp it in our minds. Our society is so littered by broken homes, broken lives, selfish attitudes, sexually driven culture, that in essence we are scared to see the Lord as our Lover. But He is,He created love, He is love, we love because HE first loved, we can not love unless He is in us. The love the world shows is the love only given by common grace to man so that the world does not erupt into a total chaotic state. The love that we as believers show is a fruit of the Spirit, it is within us by our Father, the love of the One Lover of our souls. Husbands and men, how hard it is to see the Lord as your Lover, but what a challenge to love your wives, mothers, daughters, sisters with the love the Father has lavished on you. Women, you may have been abused by men, broken down, or you may be single and desiring to be loved, whatever the case, how powerful to know that you are already loved, that your Lover is Perfect and is looking to pursue you passionately. Instead of waiting once a year to love and be loved, let the Lord passionately pursue you. Whatever your view of Song of Solomon may be, whether you believe it is from a lover to another or from the Lord to His bride, whatever your view, remember He is the Author, He divinely wrote the words of Scripture, read it with a new heart a new mind. Remember He is love, His love is patient, kind, does not envy or boast, it is not proud, it does not keep a record of wrong, it delights in us, it surrounds us, it pursues us through nature, through others, through music, through whatever reaches into the depths of our souls. Happy Late Valentines Day...may the Lord love you passionately in the days, weeks, and years to come!
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