Tuesday, February 13, 2018

BENJI As you have no doubt noticed, the stores are bedecked in red and pink (and have been for weeks), balloons, cards, and candy are everywhere; and it would seem that love is in the air, as tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. (Consider this a friendly reminder if you have yet to get something for your significant other.) But unfortunately, so much of the so-called love we see in the world today is in many ways superficial and predicated on what can be received from it and what we can get in return. We see throughout the Bible that love, real love, is selfless not self-seeking. Throughout history and even in our own lives, this has been proved time and time again. In the book of Romans chapter 8, we see a picture of this love and learn that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.