On this Valentine’s day I think of love letters, the long distant love letters my husband and I wrote during our eight month engagement. His love words warmed my heart. I always planted a lipstick kiss at the bottom of mine.
Here’s a heart-felt love note Napoleon Bonaparte wrote.
“I wake filled with thoughts of you. Your portrait and the intoxicating evening which we spent yesterday have left my senses in turmoil. Sweet, incomparable Josephine, what a strange effect you have on my heart.”
The greatest love letters ever written were from God and His Son.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
No other love letter has offered redemption from sin for believers. No other love letter has offered eternal life. What love! No other person has volunteered His life to be crucified on a cruel cross—a blood sacrifice for our sins. What love!
John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
We need to pray to our loving Lord every day because we love Him. We also need to be quiet—to listen to what He has to say to us.
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