HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! The last couple of days the devotional I’m using is targeting the astounding love God has for each of us. At Christmas I give the same devotional to our quartet members so we have each day’s message in common. Yesterday’s message was hitting me head-on. It was centered around the idea that if we “work hard enough and do it well enough, maybe God will love us”. I spent a lifetime trying this out only to find that God already loved me. The quartet member who asked me to be part of his quartet the beginning of our freshman year in college (56 years ago), text me after he’d read the message. He said the message made him think of me. I responded saying I knew that message from first hand experience. 

Valentine’s Day is all about expressing love to those around us–especially those in our family. However, there is no greater expression of love than that of God our Father. Giving us Jesus as our pathway to Himself is utterly amazing! One of the best ways to love is taking a good, close look at the sacrificial love example Christ modeled for you and me. I know I’ll never live up to it, but I want to do my best to try and live it out one day at a time.