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January 31, 2017

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. It is a day of showing your love to the ones you love the best; mother, father, girlfriend, boyfriend, sweetheart, wife, husband and the list goes on.

Recently, I read an article about our relationship to God. According to the Bible, God is our Heavenly Father. The Bible actually talks about him as our Heavenly Father five times: Matthew 6:14, 26, 32; 15:13 and 18:35 (KJV). Do we treat him like our father?

Being a woman, I do not know how men related with their father as they were growing up and as grown men. I do know how I related to my ‘Daddy’ and how I related to my ‘blood father’. My blood father was my parent by blood not by love. He treated me as a stranger compared to how he treated my brother, though we were both his full blood children. It is only through God’s loving patience that I learned to love him for who he was. Now my Daddy on the other hand, I have loved dearly ever since I can remember. He is the man that raised me. He showed me how special and precious I was by loving me, spending time with me, and he did it on a daily basis. He made me feel that he married my mother just so I could be his little girl, even though I know differently.

This is how we are supposed to love our heavenly father (God), our big brother (Jesus) and our beloved comforter (the Holy Ghost). They all have spent your entire life showing you just how special and precious you are. All three have blessed each one of us many times and in many ways throughout our lives. How often do we take the time to set aside a day just to tell them how much we love them? How important they are to us?

Sunday has been set aside as a day of rest by God. Do we rest? Most of us, as ministers and their spouse, are busy tending to our flocks, our families and things we were not able to do during the week. How much do we rest? How much of that day is spent talking to God and giving him thanks for all that he has done for us and how much we love him.

Let’s take the time this year on Valentine’s Day to spend some time alone telling God just how much we love and appreciate all that he has done for us.

-         C. I. Wilson