A Symbol of Love

Today is Valentine’s Day. A day all about love.

It was this day 22 years ago John asked me to become his wife. A day when he told me that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me.

Sickness and health. Good times and bad times. As long as we both shall live.

And he gave me a ring as a symbol of his love for me.

Today many symbols of love will be given.

Cards. Flowers. Candy. Balloons.

All different but sharing the same message of love.

But there is another symbol of love that speaks to my heart more than all of these.

That symbol is the cross.

My favorite is the one you see pictured above. One I recently purchased at a craft fair. It was made from railroad spikes.

It reminds of another day that was all about love.

A day when God showed His great love for us by sacrificing His Son.

The kind of love that would choose being nailed to a cross with spikes because spending eternity without us was even more painful to bear.

“Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave him up for all of us, won’t He also give us everything else?’ Romans 8 :32

God does not just want us in this life, but for all eternity.

His word promises that nothing will separate us from His love.

He is with us in sickness and health, in good times and bad times. As long as we live and beyond this life.

“And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries for tomorrow-not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below-indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8: 38-39

Friends, it is that love He wants us to share with those around us.

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.”

1 John 3:18

How will you share His love today? His love is too great not to share.

“Let love be your highest goal.”

1 Corinthians 14:1

Amen.