It is Valentine! Yup! And Yes! We are celebrating the Romantic kind of love, the one between a man and a woman, Ehn, exactly, that one.
Yes, we know God sent his son
Yes, we know he’s the ultimate love
And no when we said ‘Valentine’, we didn’t say premarital sex (quite different in spelling)😎
But we’re freaking celebrating the freaking Romance.
You’ve got a problem with that..? Jump to heaven and never come back! *clears throat*
*Adjusts tie*
*Sits up straight*
Now, that been said, How was Val?
My Val was exciting, Look at the pictures below:
Have you seen them!😁 I even got gifts from a secret lover, look at the picture too:
Lol, basically no pictures to be shown.
So I agree gifts and dates are not the only ways of expressing love and more so, Valentine’s day is just a day like every other day and you should show love everyday: give and help the needy; this is what we’ve been called to do, LOVE.
Howbeit, I really do not see any problem with a day been picked out (for the fun of it) for us to celebrate love & romance (in particular)
WHY SHOULD ROMANCE BE CELEBRATED AT ALL
Love is the commitment, the responsibility, the deep conviction inside your belly (or heart) that you do love a person.
And then with this comes the rush of hormones, the feeling you get when you lay your head on his shoulder or stroke his beards or cuddle into his arms or interlock your fingers into his, the blushes and smiles, the staring into each other’s eyes,knees turning into water and yes! The sexual urges.
The extent to which God values our sexual desires, He uses Paul to tell us in Scriptures that if you know you will not be able to control yourself from sex, go and get married.
Now that’s not all!
And this is where it gets exciting! In that same Scriptures, Paul was advocating (not as a rule) but in his own wise opinion, that it is better one does not get married so that you can direct your energy, time and passion towards God because when you’re engaged to someone, you MUST (a responsibility from God himself) seek to please your partner and God at the same time. You have a double responsibility of pouring all of yourself to God ‘cos God demands all, yet giving yourself (time, passion, love) to another human being (your partner)
“But this I say brethren, the time is short, so that from now on, so that those who have partners should live as though they had none…He who is unmarried cares about the things of God.. But he who is married cares (also) about the things of the world, how to please his wife” 1 Cor. 7
ISN’T THAT BEAUTIFUL!?
It’s like this, when God put you in a relationship, he is considering you as one who can handle the weight of pleasing him and your partner at the same time. It is such a huge honorable task! I imagine him looking down and tapping you on the shoulder, as a girl or boy and he is saying
“Child, I know you can handle pleasing me and this girl or this boy I’m giving to you. I’ve empowered you to do this!”
God thinks you’re mature enough to do it! I think you should be proud of yourself and make it your aim not to disappoint God.
So what should you do about the sexual urges that come up now ‘cos I tell you, that thing can be so strong!? (Don’t ask how I know…LOL)
Having first established that God honours sex so much he declares it only within the confines of marriage, this is part of the responsibility placed on you, God expects you to carry your sense to your brain😀 and avoid compromising situations.
I Corinthians 7:36 But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her youth, and this it must be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry
But now since you’ve not made enough money and my sister cannot go and marry into poverty 😂, both of you should do yourselves the good of fleeing all appearances of evil. So I doff my heart.. Sorry ‘my hat’ (I’m sha typing rubbish cos of Valentine😀) to you who are in a relationship, you’re making God super proud being in a relationship yet seeking to glorify him.
Lastly, to my fellow Single brethren in the household of God😁 You know I’m always here for you. Since you’ve read the above, I hope you see clearly how God holds relationships and romance in high esteem.
He wants us for himself
His jealousy is as demanding as the grave He would have preferred you stay unmarried so you can set your heart on him alone but he knows those guys are eyeing you seriously and you want to be cuddled and spoken to, so he says “Alright hon, go get yourself a boyfriend but he must be one who will not hinder you chasing after me.”
AND HERE IS MY GIFT TO YOU FOR THIS VALENTINE!
JOHNNY DRILLE’S LATEST SONG, AWA LOVE
If you know Johnny Drille, then don’t need to talk much
https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Johnny_Drille_Awa_Love_9jaflaver.com_.mp3
Straight from the heart ♥ 