What is it about human nature that so desperately wants to be in love but denies and rejects the love of our Savior? Maybe we are playing hard to get. I think people want to be loved. I know people want to be in love. Think about how much of our society consists of being romantically in love... music, tv, movies, advertisements, and online dating. Everything and everyone is pushing love in your face. The media pulls and plucks your heart-strings showing you how awesome it is to be in love and making you feel like something is wrong with you if you aren't in a relationship. You want to love and you want to be loved and Jesus is available for both. We try to fill the gap in our soul meant for Jesus with human relationships and then wonder why those people don't meet our expectations... because they are flawed sinners just like you and me. People will sometimes upset you, they will commonly surprise you (but not always in a good way), and they will often let you down. They don't mean too... it just happens. Think about the times you've let someone down or hurt someone's feelings without meaning to. That's why you can't find your significant other until you've found the One... Jesus Christ. Once you've found the One then you will be equipped to find your Two (significant other). Jesus will never let you down and He will never leave or forsake you. He knows what exactly what you are going through and He can sympathize with you (Hebrews 4:15). He is love. He loves us so much (despite everything we've ever done) He willingly left heaven and became a man to die in our place so that we could become righteous and have an eternal life we don't deserve not to mention we could never earn. So this Valentine's Day whether you are single or in a relationship spend some time with the One who loves you in a way no person ever could... Jesus.
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends."
- John 15:13, NKJV
"By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."
- 1 John 3:16, NKJV
"He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
- 1 John 4:8-10, NKJV
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
- John 3:16, NKJV
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