Valentine’s day is fast approaching. I am worried that some of you might forget to show up for your date. Can you picture someone being stood up, sitting there all alone, waiting and waiting, but no one shows up for the date.
Valentine’s Day has a huge impact on people. For the single person it can be a lonely, sad, isolating day. It’s a reminder of what they don’t have. For some married people it’s a reminder of the marriage they wish they had. It shines light on the broken pieces of their marriage. For the spouse experiencing the sting of marital affairs it’s a reminder of the pain and rejection. For the widow it’s a reminder of their grief. Valentine’s Day brings out all sorts of emotions.
There is a way to experience happiness, joy, peace, and contentment for all of us. The single person, the married person, the spouse who has been cheated on, the battered and abused spouse, the lonely spouse, the recently divorced person, can all experience true happiness if they remember to show up for one very important date. You see you have to find your way back to your first love. You have to go back to the table and sit with the one and only person who can love you unconditionally. You have to have conversations with the one who loves you on your good days and your bad days. People will let you down, disappoint, leave you unsatisfied until you receive love from the right source. No one can be successful in a relationship until they accept the love of their creator.
Once you come to the table, show up for the date, have conversations with your creator your heart will become whole. You can’t enter into a romantic earthly relationship until you connect to your creator. Relationships here on earth don’t work until your heart is whole, healthy, and centered through the power of God. Dating and marriage can’t heal your heart or fill those voids. Man is not capable of doing that. Only God can give you worth, purpose, and security. Relationships weren’t meant to be your God. Only God can be God to you. Don’t give someone else the position only meant for your creator.
God is for you. God loves you unconditionally. He loved you enough to send his son to die on a cross for you. You were worth dying for. There is nothing you can do to make God stop loving you. There is nothing you have to do to get God to love you. He simply loves you. He loves you despite your bad choices, wrong attitude, or failures. He loves you when others reject you. You might not realize this, but God is very relational. He wants to do life with you. He knows you better than you know yourself. He wants to empower you to stand and face whatever life throws at you. None of us can be successful in life without God. I can’t succeed at marriage without God being at the center of it. You won’t be successful in marriage without God.
However, God is a gentleman. He gives us a free will. He is powerful enough to force us to love Him. However, he gives us the choice. He only goes where He is welcomed. Turn your heart back towards God. He wants to be your first love.
So to the single person, the widower, the disappointed married person, the battered and abused spouse, the spouse whose been cheated on let God be your Valentine this year. God wants your heart. I want you to experience the unconditional love of God this Valentines Day. He will restore, empower, fill, heal, and encourage your heart. He’s waiting for you to show up for this very important date. Just come to the table.