I love you - Te quiero

Day 45:  Numbers 31:1-43: 4:41-43; 33:50-56; 25:17-19 & 34:1-35:8

My blog today will not focus on the chronological reading, but on a day we call Valentines Day, it's a day of love. 

I Love you in other languages:

ŸArabic — أنا أحبك

Chinese — 我爱你

French — Je t'aime

German — Ich liebe dich

Greek — Σ 'αγαπώ

Hebrew — אני אוהב אותך

Japanese — 私はあなたを愛して

Spanish — Te quiero

No matter the way “I love you” is said in another language, the meaning is the same: I care. I value you. I appreciate you. I desire you. We express our “I love you” with a kiss. A hug. Holding hands. Sending flowers. Being gentle. “I love you” is said at the end of phone conversations, written in cards or letters, before someone departs, when we wake up or getting ready to go to sleep. 

 

There are many different types of love: 

-Puppy love is a temporary crush we have for someone. 

-Romantic love demonstrates passion, attraction, and caring for your partner. 

-Unconditional love says. “I love you” no matter what. No strings attached. 

-Brotherly love demonstrates our love for our community and neighbors because they are like a family 

-Tough love says to someone doing wrong: “I am taking this action only because it will help you and because ‘I love you.’”

 

Of all the types of love, God’s love is the most amazing and sustaining. No matter what we do, say, or think, God loves us. No matter how we treat one another or even Him, he still loves us. God loves us for who we are.  He created us. It is true that God wants all of us to put our BEST foot forward. God wants us to study Scripture, tell the truth, be godly, act right, be honest, and love people unconditionally. But, when we are not at our BEST, He is and will always be at his best!

God says I love you by redeeming us. Redeeming means to free someone from a burden; which in our case is sin! God took extreme measures to redeem us by giving us His son Jesus. John 3:16, “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son….” David said in Psalm 103, “God is sheer mercy and grace; not easily angered, he's rich in love. He doesn't endlessly nag and scold, nor hold grudges forever. He doesn't treat us as our sins deserve, nor pay us back in full for our wrongs.” 1^st  John 1:9 says “if we confess our sins, he is faithful to forgive us.”   While God is in the forgiving business, he is also in the business of removing our sins from His memory bank, too. Isaiah 43:25, “I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again.

God also says, “I love you” by the sunsets and sunrises. By, the crashing waves of the ocean. By the snow tip mountains. By the blooming of the flowers and the budding of the trees. God says, “I love you” in every language and in every moment of life!

 

Remember, Be God Controlled!