Happy Valentine's Day - He First Loved Us

I received a Valentine email from Lifeline (our adoption agency) today and wanted to share it with you.  It is a great reminder of the perfect love we receive from God...better than any earthly Valentine we could ever receive or even imagine.

Happy Valentine's Day!

As followers of Christ, we love with a love that is not of this world. It goes beyond emotion, outward beauty, and "success." This love comes from God, so we are free to give it without hesitation or fear of not having enough or giving too much. We enjoy a love that is everlasting - always enough. One song exclaims:

"Oh, I'm running to Your arms

I'm running to Your arms

The riches of Your love

Will always be enough

Nothing compares to Your embrace

Light of the world forever reign."

"Forever Reign" - Hillsong

1 John 4:7-12

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. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.