Valentine: LOVE

Love does not primarily honour your feelings. Love primarily secures your future.

"I know the thoughts that I have towards you, thoughts of good and not of evil, to give you a hope and A FUTURE." Jer. 29:11

God is a futurist. He is committed to your future. There is nothing that He does to you without your future in view. Every circumstance He sends your way, is sent as it relates constructively to your future. If it will favour your future, God is in. If not, He is out of the deal, or that would be EVIL. How you feel, perhaps important, becomes secondary. He will always be found to act in your best interest. He has signed that pact.

At times, Loving yourself might be hurtful because Loving yourself is doing things that are for your best interest. Not everything that interests you is in your interest. Just like "forcing" a kid to school might make him cry initially, but will be in his best interest ultimately. And anything otherwise would be EVIL in its true sense.

We do not even know how to love ourselves correctly. That's why we first sell ourselves out to the only One who loves us best.

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength..." Matthew 22:26

#ValentineMusingsAndTeachings

Faith Oluwagbesan
Lead Pastor FGC CWB
February 2019

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