Love is an all consuming word. Love embraces us and hold us close. Love protects us and keeps us safe. Love denies all others and lets us know we are the only one they want. Everyone is made to be loved, cherished, honored, respected. Is it any wonder love is the most attacked thing in the world? Is it any wonder love is the one reason, the root reason for every issue we face? Love is what we lack and love is what we crave.

To find what we want we must be willing to walk away from what we have been living in. Psalm 114 says, “When Israel went forth from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion.” You may ask what does this have to do with love? I would answer everything. If we are not wiling to walk away from the beliefs we were born into, have experienced and the emotions that attach to those beliefs, we will never become a sanctuary of love, a land in which love rules us. You see love is not something outside of us, it is something inside of us.

1 John says, we love because He first loved us. People run from the lover of their souls and seek after a lover for their soul. We are seeking to obtain from people, what God has already provided for us. If we would leave Egypt (figuratively) we would then be able to cleave to Yahweh and we would become a sanctuary, a place where His love rules in us and through us. The kingdom of God is a culture of pure love. We don’t need a holiday in America to tell us it is a day of love, for we live in a kingdom of love.

Everyone wants, needs, is made to be loved and what the world needs is some people who know they are loved by God, so they can go and really love others. God is love! We who know God, know love, now we are called to go and love others how we have been loved by God. Happy Valentines Day friends.