This Friday is Valentine's Day. I do not know if you celebrate this particular day, but it is a day when the thoughts of most people go to love. I think that in some respects, no one ever grows out of the phase of life where we share little candy heart messages that are supposed to express our "feelings" toward each other. At the end of the day the whole idea of love that our culture preaches to us is a message that begins and ends with the self. I am supposed to love myself, make sure that those I love love me in return. It is all about me and what makes me happy.
This is not the biblical picture of what love is. A biblical love is not self focused, but focused upward and outward. First love is to be directed upward to God. Then it is to be directed outward toward others. And only when you do those things properly will you find true joy.
So the challenge this time of year is to focus our loves rightly. To direct our feelings into action upward and outward!
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