Be my Valentine

With the great "love" holiday approaching, Valentines day, I feel it necessary to talk about my "valentine". 

I have never really cared much about February 14th and what it is to some.  I have always felt like we should show love all the time and not just on a particular day.  I know that most people do love everyday, but why is it that we feel we must wait until that very day to really express the super crazy love? Don't you think women like getting flowers more than just one day a year?

What if Jesus picked only one day of the year to love us?  That would be so sad.  I don't know about you, but I feel His love all the time.  I haven't always, but I do now.  There have been times when I thought He abandoned me.  I have felt like God just resigned and said I wasn't worth loving.  The scars of worldly, wounded love skewed my perception of God's kind of love. 

Shame on me for thinking like that.  We start to think like that when we focus on ourselves, our struggles and our own abilities.  The clutter of life gets in the way of the love that God shows us.  We measure love by the way humans love us.  I have to say, that can be a cruel thing.

In Psalm 119:103, the psalmist says this, "How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey."  He felt God speaking to him in love and adoration.  He experienced God's  wooing. 

If we take time to listen and put all the worldly stuff aside, we will hear God speaking love into us.  If we pay attention, God woos us with things that will delight us because He knows what we like.  God knows I like birds.  He constantly puts them in moments of my life to show me His love.  He uses them as distractions when I start feeling unworthy or sad. 

God loves us with flowers everyday not just February 14th.  He will serenade us with rain drops on a roof or birds singing sweet love songs.  How about the rainbows, can your earthly Valentine give you that? I think not. He amazes if we open up to His heart and stop to listen to Him.

This world doesn't have the "valentine" presents that God can offer.  A bouquet of cut flowers, a box of chocolates-these things go away quickly.  God gives something so much better and that is everlasting-Himself.  He wants to speak the words to us that are sweeter than honey.  He wants to romance us and love us like no human ever can.  I get chills just thinking about it.