The Weekly Encourager – February 14, 2012 – A Valentine from God

Do you feel loved? I got some bad news today, so I'm posting this as much for myself as for anyone else. Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.” - Jeremiah 31:3

“'Behold, days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah...I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people....They shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,' declares the Lord, 'for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.' “ - Jeremiah 31:31-34

“For as many as may be the promises of God, in Him [Christ Jesus] they are yes; wherefore also by Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.” - 2 Corinthians 1:20

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” - John 3:16

“Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends.” - John 15:9-14

God is love. If you have believed in Him, you are loved in the greatest way possible, in the deepest sense possible, and for the longest time possible.

God sent you a valentine in the form of Jesus Christ. We count all else as loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Him. Besides Him, we desire nothing on this earth. He is our one wholly true and faithful love, our joy, our priceless treasure, our all in all, and He loves us!

God is love,