Sparrow Adventures: Unconditional Love

Now that Valentines day is over, all the festivities, "love", and romance kind of all fades away. The world keeps moving and we all move with it. It's so interesting to me how quickly moments, days, or events we've prepared for and been waiting for seem to fly by so quickly! It makes me wonder why we don't celebrate every day as if it were a moment to be thankful for. I mean, why not prepare to have a wonderful day everyday? Why not prepare to have a romantic, or loving, or special day everyday? Of course we all have our jobs, responsibilities and other things to attend too, but I don't think it would hurt anyone to take an hour or so to just embrace the day we have before us!

Anyways, I'm not much of a Valentines day obsessor. Don't get me wrong, I love flowers, chocolates, quality time, cards, etc. But it's not a "holiday" that I obsess over too much. None-the-less it is nice to see everyone enjoying their significant others, friends, family, etc. This Valentines Day, I was reading another blog and it talked about God's love for us. It really inspired me to talk about it myself.

We all want to be and feel loved. We all crave that emotional sensation, and we all want to give love too. It's inevitable. Very few people in life say, "I don't care for love" or "I don't want to be loved"...in fact, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that to me. The sad thing about the term "love" is that it's been so twisted. Love to so many people now days has been thwarted into a physical, in-the-moment, quick, thing, where the true value and meaning of love is lost. Kind of like this (ignore the the cuteness)

This brings me to God's love and what His meaning of true love is.

Love by definition is: Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment.^[1] Love is also said to be a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".^[2] Love may describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals

and

strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties <maternal love for a child> (2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt bylovers (3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests <love for his old schoolmates>

and it goes on and on in almost every type of dictionary available...

In the bible, the definition of love is this: This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10 NIV

And throughout the Bible there are several references to what it means to be loved by God and to love like God...unconditional love IS true love. No matter what day, time, or moment, God's unconditional love never fails, it never stops. He doesn't wait until Valentines Day to give you affection or love, He loves you every day, all day. This is the kind of love we should celebrate and cherish. Loving each other is a beautiful emotion that we have the privilege of experiencing; but if we applied God's love to our life, and loved like He does, think of just how much more invigorating loving each other would be.

God loves you.

He loves everything about you, whether or not you feel it, it's there, it's constant, and it never changes. He loves you, has loved you, and will always love you in the PERFECT form of love. God is love, therefore he created love. He knows what it means to love unconditionally in perfect form.