Love Card
In the spirit of Valentine’s, at WitnessLA.org we’re featuring the stories and testimonies on what God has shown Christians about singleness, relationships, and love. Today, our friend Touyee shares about the best and most memorable Valentine’s Day card he’s ever received.
The worse part of Valentine’s Day growing up was waiting till the end of class to open up all the cards that were given out from your fellow classmates. Likewise the best part of Valentine’s Day was opening all the cards that you got. There was the classic train that read “I choo-choo choose you!” The bumble bee that read “Let’s Bee Together!” There was the classic card that simply read “I love you.”
As we’ve grown up, for those in a season of singleness, these Valentine’s card phrases can bring back memories of brokenness, heartbreak, and despair.
So we’ve long forgotten about those cards, tucked them away in the back of our mind and just hoping to get through this day without too much pain, tears, and grief.
In my season of singleness, I want to reflect on the greatest Valentine’s Day card of all time, the Bible. This card expresses the greatest love of all: God’s love for us.
For the majority of January I was depressed. The depression where I had lost all joy in the things that uses to bring happiness. The depression where I couldn’t get out of bed. I was hiding it the best I could from family and friends. I couldn’t take being single anymore; I wanted to be in a relationship.
I believed that I was waiting patiently for God’s will in my season of singleness, but turns out I was waiting patiently while my arms were crossed and tapping my foot at Him. The turning point came when my best friend from college called and informed me that he was now in a committed relationship. He was now in love. I expressed to him how incredibly happy I was to hear that, but in my heart I was jealous, angry, and frustrated. That’s when I realized that I was no longer secure in my relationship with God. Being in a relationship had become idolatry to me.
I had forgotten my first love in Christ. Those feelings I felt right after my conversion, the joy, excitement, the feeling that nothing was impossible and that so much could be achieved were forgotten in only a few months. I didn’t love Jesus like I once did, but I was still going to church, still serving Him, still being a witness for Him. However, that simply isn’t good enough for Him.
Matthew 22:37-38: And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.”
Those in a season of singleness dread receiving Valentine’s Day cards. What if Jesus Christ gave you a Valentine’s Day card? Would you be excited to read it? Well, Jesus has given you a Valentine’s Day card. The Bible is God’s card for each one of us. The greatest card we could ever receive. Filled with His love for us.
Let God’s words bring you closer to His love. Let his love break you from your brokenness, heartbreak, and despair. His love transcends. His love transforms. His love touches.
God’s card for me reads: Romans 8:38-39: “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
So this Valentine’s Day, whether you’re single, in a relationship, or married, open up the Bible and read God’s love card for you.
