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We have just come through the love holiday.  I mean Valentine’s Day.  I do not want to miss an opportunity to remind us of what is most important.  You have heard this before. 


1 Corinthians 13:3-7,13  NLT  

If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance… 13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.


That is what love looks like.  We have seen in.  We have lived it.  We have most likely even allowed this true kind of love to work in and through our lives.  


John 13:34  NLT  

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.


That is not a suggestion but a requirement.  In fact those who choose to follow Jesus choose the love of God.


Valentine’s Day too often is about feeling or pleasure or love that just doesn’t last.  But God’s love lasts forever.  It is also unconditional love.  That is what we should live out in our marriages, our homes and through out our communities.


Matthew 22:37-40  NLT  

Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”


There you have the greatest commandments, and that is my reminder to you and to me on this day.  Right after Valentine’s Day love is still to be shared.  We are still to love God and love others.  This love proves what really matters.


John 13:35  NLT  

Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

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