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Anti-Valentines Day
'This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.' 1 John 3:16
Do you know that if you go online you will find over 70,000 web pages dedicated to the Anti-Valentines Day movement?! You can buy an Anti-Valentines Day T-Shirt, you can listen to the Top Ten Anti-Valentines Day songs, you can read Anti-Valentines Day poetry, and share your own. And if you're really Anti-Valentines Day you can find out where your nearest Anti-Valentines Day party is, although it would probably be full of quite scary people!
So why are so many people turning against this annual 'celebration of love'? Well the answer's pretty obvious isn't it. They (and maybe you too) have seen through the tacky commercialism, they have realised their value isn't measured by whether they get a card from a secret admirer or not. Being Anti-Valentines Day isn't being Anti-Love; in fact it's the opposite. It seems that people want to protect true love from being cheapened by chocolates and cheesy cards. It's like people are realising that 'selling love' is out of order.
In his letters the Apostle John shares loads about love, he had a special revelation about the way it flows directly from God's heart to ours, '...God is love...' he wrote (1 John 4:16 NIV), going on to add 'Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him' and underlining that 'We love because he first loved us.'
So today, feel free to be Anti-Valentines Day, but don't ever be Anti-Love.
written by Bob Gass
'This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.' 1 John 3:16
Do you know that if you go online you will find over 70,000 web pages dedicated to the Anti-Valentines Day movement?! You can buy an Anti-Valentines Day T-Shirt, you can listen to the Top Ten Anti-Valentines Day songs, you can read Anti-Valentines Day poetry, and share your own. And if you're really Anti-Valentines Day you can find out where your nearest Anti-Valentines Day party is, although it would probably be full of quite scary people!
So why are so many people turning against this annual 'celebration of love'? Well the answer's pretty obvious isn't it. They (and maybe you too) have seen through the tacky commercialism, they have realised their value isn't measured by whether they get a card from a secret admirer or not. Being Anti-Valentines Day isn't being Anti-Love; in fact it's the opposite. It seems that people want to protect true love from being cheapened by chocolates and cheesy cards. It's like people are realising that 'selling love' is out of order.
In his letters the Apostle John shares loads about love, he had a special revelation about the way it flows directly from God's heart to ours, '...God is love...' he wrote (1 John 4:16 NIV), going on to add 'Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him' and underlining that 'We love because he first loved us.'
So today, feel free to be Anti-Valentines Day, but don't ever be Anti-Love.
written by Bob Gass
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