Love Beyond Conversation Hearts

Valentines Day is upon us and amid the roses, chocolates, jewelry, and dinners; I am wondering if very many people remember what real love is. Valentines Day seems a little ridiculous in some respects but if you're a Christian you can allow it to remind you of Someone very special, someone who didn't need personalized M&M's or Necco conversation hearts to tell us how much he loves us.

The One who loves you the most created love, and gave the word a new meaning. Jesus Christ offered himself as a living sacrifice so that we could live eternally with him if we so choose. Many times Christ displayed his love without words, he displayed his love with actions. Who hasn't heard the old saying "Action's speak louder than words"? God sent his only Son to be brutally murdered and to die upon a cross so that all generations could know and experience a love far beyond what we today think of as love, his actions spoke louder than words. There are different kinds of love and Jesus Christ was and is the perfect example sacrificial love.

"But God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us"-Romans 8:28. How many people would be willing to die for everyone? Even terrorist and those who would kill him? Jesus Christ came to die for everyone and no one has to be excluded from receiving the eternal life in heaven that his love and sacrifice bought.

Jesus Christ doesn't offer us flowers, candy, or chocolate; he offers himself- love's greatest gift. The kind of love that Christ has is real and it reaches vastly beyond the "I love you" on a conversation heart. Choose Jesus, his love last, it will never fail you.