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choose to love unselfishly



I don’t want to miss a day.  Thus, I remind you that this coming Monday is February 14th.  Valentine’s Day.


You might think it is an awesome day full of reminders of those you love and good feelings. Lots of good stuff, right?  Well, some people don’t see it that way.


Valentine’s Day reminds some people of loss, struggle, feeling of being alone and so much more.  Those feelings are very real and painful.  What can we do to change that in someone’s life.


Philippians 4:6-7  NASB

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.


Help others.  Look out for others.


It is easy to be selfish and to think less of others.  But what is real love?  What is serving others?  Literally is thinking less of us and more of them.  It is doing something that seems unnatural to help someone else be stronger and know they are valued.


That is where real love,  God’s kind of love comes in to play.


What will you do in the coming days to let those who don’t think they are loved know they are loved?


John 15:12  NASB

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.


We are commanded to love, but make sure that showing love for others is genuine.


Romans 13:8  NASB

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.


Debt kills.  That is not just money or financial debt.  It is the kind of debt when we do things with wrong motives.  Choose to love people because you see their value and choose to honor that person.


John 15:13  NASB

Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.


We love best when we love like God loves us.  Know you are loved.  Help others know they are loved.  That is the greatest kind, the best kind, of love.  It is unconditional!


1 John 4:19  NASB

We love, because He first loved us.

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