If you’re planning to get married today in Las Vegas, you can apply for your marriage license here, then pick it up at the baggage claim area at the airport. Alternately, if you or your travel partner is named “Valentine,” you can get free air travel to Iceland today.
A “Smooches from Pooches” kissing booth is waiting for you at Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina. Master violinist Patrick Contreras will serenade you at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in California. If you forgot to get a Valentine’s Day card for your loved one, you might head to Chicago Midway Airport, where they’re distributing free cards today.
“Love others like God loves them.”
As Janet Denison noted in her blog, the history and legends surrounding Valentine’s Day remind us that today is “a perfect holiday to allow God to use you as a witness to his perfect love. Love God with everything in you. Love others like God loves them. Let people know you are a Christian this Valentine’s Day by sharing God’s perfect love with them.”
God’s word repeatedly calls us to love as we are loved:
- “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John 13:34; cf. John 15:12).
- “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love” (1 John 4:7-8).
- “Love one another with brotherly affection” (Romans 12:10).
- “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly” (1 Peter 4:8).
Why is it hard to do what God calls us to do?
Three enemies of unconditional love
Three cultural factors conspire together against experiencing and sharing God’s unconditional love.
One: Americans have separated Sunday from Monday, so we don’t think God’s love is relevant to the “real world.”
Centuries before Christ, Greek philosophers began separating the soul from the body…
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