Today is a special day when many lovely young ladies are hoping to receive a beautiful bouquet of roses -- or maybe a heart-shaped box of delicious chocolates -- and some may be asked that question they've been waiting to hear---"Will you marry me"?
The song-writer said, "Love is a many splendored thing"! God's Word says---"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it."
We see a beautiful picture of perfect love in the 13 chapter of I Corinthians:
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth . . . ."
I am very blessed and thankful for the love of family and friends, but, most of all, I am so thankful that "Jesus Loves Me."
"Anna and Susan Warner lived in a lovely townhouse in New York City where their father was a successful lawyer. But the Panic of 1837 wrecked the family's finances, forcing them to move into a ramshackle Revolutionary War-era home on Constitution Island on the Hudson, right across from the military academy at West Point.
Needing to contribute to the family income, Anna and Susan began writing poems and stories for publication. One of their most successful joint projects was a novel titled "Say and Seal" in which a little boy is dying. His Sunday School teacher comforts him by taking him in his arms, rocking him, and making up a little song: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so . . ." The novel became a best-seller, and "Jesus Loves Me" soon became the best known children's hymn on earth.
And on this Valentine's Day, let us remember the words of Jesus:
"By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another."
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