Cupid Didn’t Do It

Cue the music. Yes, today is either a day you “love” or a day you hate. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Yep, I’m on the LOVE side of this equation. What’s not to love about sweet sentiments, chocolate, flowers, a nice dinner and all of the other do-dads that help set Valentine’s Day apart from the other holidays? A day set apart for LOVE.

I think back onto many of my favorite Valentine days. They weren’t all about smoochie, smoochie, or ooey gooey stuff. Sometimes it was just knowing that a friend thought enough of you to put a cute note into a special box saying they were glad you were friends. Or, you knew you were going to have an easy day at school and get a party out of it, with cake and candy. Somehow Cupid was always in the middle of it all ready to launch his bow at some unsuspecting stranger. For some unknown reason, I always thought of Cupid as being like a Cherubim or Seraphim. Just for clarification, now that I’m an adult, there is no correlation between Cupid and the celestial beings, except for the wings and possibly some ancient mythology.

Even though Cupid is given credit for shooting our hearts with love, nothing could be further from the truth. Genesis 2:7 says, …then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. That was love. When no helpmate could be found for the man, Genesis 2:21-22 tells us, The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. That was love. 1Peter 2:24 says, He (Jesus) himself who bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live in righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. That was Love. I could go on and on and list a hundred or even five hundred verses that speak directly to or exemplify what love is.

My point for today is to acknowledge that God himself was the perfect creator of Love. Love has been here since the beginning of time. We don’t need Cupid flitting around shooting arrows to find it. It has been here all along. All we have to do is look. Romans 5:8 says, “But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” That means he died for you and me. The Bible tells us all we need to know about love. Its okay to celebrate but know that love is here 365 days a year. We don’t have to have Cupid to remind us.

Colossians 3:14 – And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Lord, thank you for loving us and showing us what a perfect love is all the days of the year. Amen