🔑 *KEY VERSE:*
"Greater love has no one than this than to lay down one's lifefor his friends", John 15:13.
📖 *TODAY'S READING:*
1 John 2:15-18
📜 *ONE YEAR BIBLE STUDY PLAN*
Leviticus 5-7
*COMMENTARY*
Why celebrate Valentine's day? To answer this question and many more, which fill the air around this period each year by curious Christians, a little background story of the man with whom we associate Lovers' Day is necessary. Valentine was a Catholic priest who lived in the Third century, at the time Rome was ruled by Emperor Claudius II. Claudius waged many wars which claimed the lives of many young people. Hence, many of them detested joining his army. To get the young people back ininto the army, he issued a decree to stop them from getting married, but Valentine defied the King's edict and was secretly wedding many young couples. This led to his execution on 14th
February, 270 AD.
Before his execution, Valentine wrote a love letter to the daughter of his jailor whom he cured of blindness. His letter closed with a note, "From your Valentine". Valentine's official feast day was first held on 14 February, 496 AD, to replace pagan worship which the Christian Church was trying to stamp out. At first, the celebration was not associated with Romantic Love until, Poet Geoffrey Chaucer, associated it with romantic love as we have it today.
Like the Christmas Day celebration, Valentine's day celebration has lost its original intended purpose. It was to be a day to celebrate a man who stood for what he believed till death. Unfortunately, Valentine's Day has become a doomsday for many people. My take is that the church should take advantage of Valentine's Day since it has become the world's most celebrated day only second to the Christmas celebration. It should not be left in the hands of godless people, who misuse and abuse the day. The church should turn that 'Day' into a rendezvous, that would channel the energies of youths positively.
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🎚 *CONTROLLING THOUGHTS*
The Church should take advantage of valentine's day celebration.
🙏🏿 *PRAYER*
May the love of Christ woo many hearts today and always, in Jesus' mighty name, Amen!
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