LOVE TODAY

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same? (Matthew 5:46)

It is February, and it is also time for Valentine's Day. Chocolate, candy hearts, cards, flowers, and all other sorts of gifts to express one's love to another.

The history of this holiday is a long one, dating back to Roman times. The customs have changed through the years, but one constant has stayed the same, the love for that "someone special".

Today, we actually know what goes on in our body when we "fall in love" with another person. The chemical and physical changes in our brain. The chemical saturation that takes place, making the euphoria a person feels for that special someone.

It is no myth that love is blind, it truly is!

As time passes, this chemical infatuation lessens its hold and a person's feelings will lessen. Then the true test of love comes into being, as the romance changes to commitment.

True love takes a commitment from a person. It is not a passing fad, infatuation, or chocolate heart. It is a true gut check, when the times are bad, you are there type of love.

This is why Jesus state that it is easy to love someone who loves you, but to truly love, you have to love unconditionally.

And He should know.

But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

Love is hard.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35)

When times get rough, when life throws its worst at you, when that someone special isn't so special, love will endure.

As Paul tells us, without it, what good am I? (I Cor. 13.13: But the greatest of these is love. )

In today's love society, love comes and it goes. In God's kingdom, love comes and it stays.