With February comes the feeling of love and intimacy among romantic couples, families, friends and everyone that we love dearly. Everyone must know by now that this love is culminated on Valentine’s Day which this year is next Wednesday, February 14. We hear so much about Valentine’s Day in our secular world because everyone tells us about all the wonderful ways we can spend our money to show our loved ones how much they mean to us. However, did you know that there is an official Valentine’s Week leading up to the grand day telling us of the specific ways we can spoil our loved one with the right gifts.
For those interested, here are the specific days of Valentine’s Week and how you are advised to respond to your loved one(s).
Rose Day (February 7) – Rose Day marks the beginning of Valentine’s Week as red roses signify deep love and passion.
Propose Day (February 8) – Propose Day is a day to confess feelings and propose to one’s beloved. It is a day characterized by heartfelt confessions where people embark on a journey of commitment towards selfless love and a lifetime of togetherness.
Chocolate Day (February 9) – Chocolate Day aims to symbolize the sweetness of love with indulgent treats.
Teddy Day (February 10) – Teddy Day is the day to embrace the warmth and comfort of cuddly teddy bears.
Promise Day (February 11) – On Promise Day one makes sincere commitments and vows to their beloved.
Hug Day (February 12) – Hug Day celebrates the union of two people longing for each other. A simple hug is an act of affection and support in the relationship.
Kiss Day (February 13) – Kiss Day symbolizes the deep emotions of love. People exchange passionate kisses and celebrate the love in the purest form.
Valentine’s Day (February 14) – The finale, February 14 is the day that finally wraps up the beautiful week. It is a day to celebrate love, commitment, and passion. Valentine’s Day culminates in the essence of deep feelings of love, intimacy, and togetherness.
These gifts may all be nice and appreciated by our loved ones, but the Bible is very clear on how we are to live our lives. We are to love one another, including all those who are hard to love. We are to do this every day of our life and not just on one day or week in the middle of February. Love is The Greatest Gift that we can share with others, which is given to us in the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians in His Word.
I pray that you will read these words slowly and carefully, and maybe multiple time, to absorb the incredible message to each of us here. This book in the Bible more than any other completely describes what our response should be to Valentine’s Day, all year round!
1 Corinthians 13 – If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part and prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
My prayer for each of us this Valentine’s Day is that we may all seek the true love God wishes for us in these words.