Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and I am sure many couples are planning romantic dates and little gifts to show how much they love each other. In my mind, you shouldn't need a holiday to work at expressing your love for someone. I know a lot of people spend money on gifts or expensive dinners, but who said money is used to express love?
One of my favorite stories in Genesis is the story of Jacob and Rachael. It is one of the first stories of love and expressing that love. Jacob went to his uncle's land to find himself a wife. When he set eyes on Rachael he was in love and worked out a plan to work for SEVEN years in order to prove his worth to marry her. Instead when those seven years were up, on the wedding day, it was Leah not Rachael. Did Jacob cut his losses and just accept that he couldn't have Rachael? No he worked another seven years so he could have her hand. This man worked 14 years so that he could marry this beautiful woman. Now don't get me wrong I am not saying a man should work 14 years, but he should do what it takes to woo a woman before and after marriage.
Just because commercialism says February 14th is the day of love, doesn't mean anything. I think..or rather I know God wants us to be able to express our love for each other as well as Him every living day. We need to tell our loved ones we love them, or find little creative ways to show them. We need to spend more time with God and learning his word as well as talking to him. Valentine's Day is just a day made by man and I don't really like it. I express my love for God and for Nate everyday and don't need to spend money or have a holiday to remind me to do it. It should come natural to express love to God...isn't that what we were created to do in the first place?
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