Candy, flowers, stickers, hearts, cupid with his arrows...how else can we define or describe the essence of Valentine's Day. Little kids snicker as they open their cards from classmates as mom melts at the sight of a new piece of jewelry from dad. Love is definitely in the air.
A songwriter once penned these words:
* If we with ink the oceans fill, or were the sky of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above would drain the oceans dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky
O Love of God; how rich and pure; how measureless and strong
It shall forevermore endure the saints and angels song.
Describing the love of God is impossible. Explaining it...well let's allow His own Word to do that. "God loved the world so much that he allowed His only son to die for all so that any who would believe in Him would live forever with Him." John 3:16 (my paraphrase).
When you fill your stomach with candy out of the boxed heart this Valentine's Day, be sure to fill your spiritual heart with the sweetness of God's love.
* "The Love of God" written in 1917 by Fredrick Lehman
