LOVE

February is a time when many people celebrate St. Valentine’s Day and Love. Do you remember taking the time to personally make special valentines to give to you teacher, friends, and members of your family? My mom would give me all the supplies needed and I'd spend the day creating small masterpieces to show my love.

Year’s ago in my Youth Group, we discussed the many different kinds of love. We love God, we love our parents, our spouses, our children, our pets, our country, baseball and apple pie. But it’s HOW we love that is important.

“If I could Speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didn’t love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal.” – 1 Corinthians 13:1 (NLT)

Learn “love languages”. That is, learn the ways that people feel loved. Loving others in your own way isn’t hard; simply think of things that make you feel loved and do them for others. Do act of service, give a gift, or spend some time with another. Reaching out and actually touching another from a hug to a simple pat on the hand can fill a heart. A word of praise, encouragement or a smile will warm a soul.

Love for others, in your own way, will often lead you to find God’s purpose for you and allow Him to work through you. Learn to speak “love languages” and you will be doing God’s work.