On this Valentine’s Day, I only want you to do me one favor. Please do NOT use today to decide the length of someone’s love for you. Love is an action that should be showed every day and while this holiday is filled with heart shaped balloons and candy, fancy dinners and engagements, cards with heartfelt messages and roses; it shouldn’t be the determining factor when you’re trying to see if someone actually loves you. Bible shares in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, “If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 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.”
Yes, I am all for gifts but they don’t mean nothing privately if your actions don’t prove you love me publicly. Sure, I’m liking that my timeline is filled with love but what’s in your heart? Don’t divorce your spouse because they didn’t send flowers to the job like everybody else. Instead, love him/her more because their love isn’t based on what they can buy but it’s shown by what they CAN’T! Love is … “Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.” -1 Corinthians 13:4-13.
May you have the best Valentine’s Day. ❤️
Lakisha, the Author 