Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, a day that is set aside to let
people who are important in our lives know that we love them (even though we
should be doing this EVERY day, but that’s another blog entirely).
Last year at this time I was in Romania with three other
women working in the abandoned baby hospitals and with single mothers as well.
We traveled there deliberately in the cold of winter so that we would be there
on Valentine’s Day to share about the greatest love of all, the love of Jesus
Christ. We sang of God’s great love and we shared the Good News of His great
love and we served and poured our love out on the children and people of Bucharest.
One of the places where we served was The Hagar Maternal
Center that houses 8 single women and their babies. This home that is run by
Touched Romania Ministries and serves as an alternative for these mom’s to
abandonment. At the home the moms learn about the love of Jesus Christ, and how
to care for and love their babies among other practical life lessons
During one of the parenting sessions I spoke to the young
mothers about the concept that there are different ways people, in these
particular case children, experience love. I used material from the popular
book called “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman... Mr. Chapman categorizes the way people perceive
they are loved in 5 ways (physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time,
gifts, and acts of service). He surmises that if we understand which “love
language or languages” the people in our lives respond to and learn to show our
love to them in that way then they will feel truly loved.
I recommend that you read the book and glean from the insights
it contains because it IS important to display our love so that they KNOW how
much we love them.
But I want to suggest that we should also be thinking about
our “first love”, God, and how we can display our love for HIM in ways that HE
KNOWS how MUCH we love HIM.
There is a woman in the Bible that took a daring risk to go
against what was expected of her so she could display her love to Jesus in ways
that HE would KNOW.
“…so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. As she stood
behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then
she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and pored perfume on them. ….Therefore,
I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven- as her great love has shown.”
(Luke 7:37b, 47a)
This woman displayed her great love to Jesus by giving her
time to focus her love solely on Jesus; she brought her most precious gift of perfume
and poured it on HIM. She did the work of the lowest of servants as she washed
HIS dirty and tired feet with tears of great love and dried them with another
of her treasures, her long hair. She touched Jesus physically and emotionally
with her display of LOVE.
I think she was speaking Jesus’ love language!
I know this may sound funny to think that Jesus has a love language
BUT what if we took the time to find out what we could do that would let Jesus
know of our great love for HIM. When Mary
of Bethany anointed Jesus’ head with
perfume HE said she had done a beautiful thing for HIM.
“ a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of
pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head”… “Leave her
alone,” said Jesus. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing
to me.” (Mark 14: 3b,6)
How can you touch
Jesus as a sign of your Love?
Do your lips speak
and sing of Love for HIM?
How much time are you
willing to give to show HIM that you Love HIM?
Have you given Him your
most precious gifts?
How can you serve Him
that would please HIM?
What BEAUTIFUL THING can you do for Jesus ??
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind”.
(Matthew 22:37)
Remember it's ALL about Loving HIM!!!
ruthann
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