Valentine's Day!

As we think about Valentine's Day tomorrow, I think about an old song -- "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing!"  God's Word says:  "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it."  In this sad day, when many substitute Lust for Love, may we who know the Author of Love show to the world how God defines it in the 13th chapter of I Corinthians.
        Love suffereth long.          Love is kind.       Love envieth not.            Love vaunteth not itself.
        Love is not puffed up.       Love doth not behave itself unseemly.       Love seeketh not her own.
        Love is not easily provoked.         Love thinketh no evil.                  Love rejoices not in iniquity.
        Love rejoices in the truth.
This kind of love "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."

I like this poem, entitled "What Is Love" by Helen Steiner Rice:

     "What is love?  No words can define it.
It's something so great, only God could design it --
      Wonder of Wonders---beyond man's conception---
And only in God can love find true perfection.

      For love means much more than small words can express,
For what man calls love is so very much less---
      Than the beauty and depth and the true richness of
God's gift to mankind --- His compassionate love . . .

      For  love has become a word that's misused,
Perverted, distorted, and often abused,
      To speak of "light romance" or some affinity for
A passing attraction that is seldom much more
      Than a mere interlude of inflamed fascination --
A romantic fling of no lasting duration.

      But love is enduring and patient and kind,
It judges all things with the heart, not the mind;
      And love can transform the most commonplace
Into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace . . .

      For love is unselfish, giving more than it takes,
And no matter what happens, love never forsakes;
      It's faithful and trusting and always believing,
Guileless and honest and never deceiving.

      Yes, love is beyond what man can define,
For love is Immortal and God's Gift is Divine!"

And God's Word says:  "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."