Thursday, February14, 2019

BENJI Good Morning, I’m Benji Riddle – Director of Youth Ministries at Central United Methodist. For weeks the stores have been done up in red and pink, balloons, cards, and candy are everywhere, and it would seem that love is in the air…reason being is that today is Valentine’s Day. 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; 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. Have a happy Valentine’s Day and know that God loves you!