VALENTINES DAY 2022

James P Texeira

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Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day which we celebrate every February 14th with flowers, usually roses, chocolates and a dinner for the one we love. It’s a romantic holiday set aside for those who are our valentine! It’s suppose to be a holiday that was named after Saint Valentine. Problem is there have been many Saint Valentines throughout history and most of them if not all were martyred for their faith.

The Valentine’s Day we celebrate was most likely created by Geoffrey Chaucer, a medieval English poet who often took liberties with history, placing his poetic characters into fictitious historical contexts that he represented as real. No record exists of romantic celebrations on Valentine’s Day prior to a poem Chaucer wrote around 1375. In his work “Parliament of Foules,” he links a tradition of courtly love with the celebration of St. Valentine’s feast day–an association that didn’t exist until after his poem received widespread attention.

But what the holiday does focus on is love and that plays right into the fact that God is love. So today let’s look at one of the most popular chapters in the Bible on the subject of love, 1 Corinthians chapter 13.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13 NKJV

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Love Suffers Long and Is Kind!

Reading this from the Message gives us something to think about. The Message says, “Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self.”

Nowadays it is more important to take care of oneself. If I have to suffer, I’m gone. It’s all about my needs and the question, “What about me?” is a common phrase heard all over the place. But that’s not the characteristic of the God kind of love. The agape love that is kind, putting the needs of others first.

Love Does Not Envy, Parade Itself, and Not Puffed Up!

Again we can look to the Message Bible. It says, “Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut. Doesn’t have a swelled head.”

We live in a society that thrives on competition. The bigger house, the nicer car, the larger bank account and so on. We are almost programed to compete. This competition can creep into our homes where I make more money than you do cause I’m smarter than you. If we don’t watch out, we can teach to our children without knowing it. Why can’t you be athletic like your brother. How come you can’t get straight A’s like you sister. All of this is not love. Love is not only to be shown on a holiday .