"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. "You are My friends if you do what I command you.” John 15:12-14
Being married and becoming a father has taught me to love in intense and protective ways that I never knew I was even capable of. Each day that I spend with my wife and children makes me understand and appreciate more the loving relationship my parents have always given me.
Sadly, there are many people who do not feel the same way about their respective families and seek the same kind of intense love and care in their relationships. What far too many don’t realize is that God loves them far deeper and greater than the most loving and caring human parent possible can. The evidence lies in what God did for us by his mercy and grace-sending his only Son to die on the cross for us, while we were/are certainly not deserving of it.
Today is Valentine’s day and if even if you are down with the blues today, just ponder for a moment how incredible it is that the Creator of all of the universe loves you and me in such an unimaginable and amazing way!
It’s through our gratitude and praise of God’s grace and love that love flows through us and into all our other relationships...
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