Valentine’s Thought for the week from the Rev David Jones

Valentine’s Day this week will have seen the usual bouquets of red roses, chocolates and other gifts given as expressions of love and affection.

Greetings cards from the hilarious to the deeply romantic will have been sent and received by many love struck youngsters, and those not so young.

A story this week of a couple married for over 65 years and who never miss sending Valentines to each other and not going to sleep without saying those wonderful words ‘I love you’ goes to show that romantic love is not only for the young.

There again, looking back it was good fun to keep everyone guessing when Valentines were sent and received. Never did the early Christian martyr Valentine contemplate that all these centuries later he would be at the heart of such romantic mystery!

The Bible tells us that God is the source of all love because ‘God is love’. One of the most treasured verses of Scripture is that ‘God so loved the world that He gave his only son’ Unlike the Valentine tradition of keeping secret the identity of the sender God freely and openly declares his love.

Jesus fulfills all God’s promises which are grounded in his eternal love to the lost and lonely, to the hurt and forgotten, wonderfully revealed on the cross where we see the fullness of God’s love bringing us all forgiveness, peace and an assurance of heaven. Truly a message of love to a loveless world signed and sealed by the Creator of the world!

Rev David Jones

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