This was on Facebook this morning and I couldn't let it go without sharing it here..so good....
Proverbs 31 Ministry
"Love is, indeed, a sacred and lofty gift, but two decades of loving
and learning has taught me that the mark of true love isn’t height, it’s
humility. True love doesn’t stand tall; it bends low.
True love stoops to pick up the trash bag sitting near the kitchen door and crouches to look a sullen child in the eye.
True love bows to change diapers and to shovel snow, to deliver goodnight kisses and offer hugs.
True love bends over the dishwasher and over the sick child. True love hovers over the hurting and kneels quietly in prayer.
True love chooses to be righteous instead of right, servant instead of master, humble instead of haughty.
Let’s be honest, true love isn’t headline news. It’s not greeting card
verse. It’s not blockbuster buzz. True love is Heaven’s hope, as we see
in 1 John 4:10: "This is the embodiment of true love: not that we have
loved God first, but that He loved us and sent His unique Son on a
special mission to become an atoning sacrifice for our sins."
God
didn’t declare His love for us with a bouquet of red roses. He didn’t
wrap up a box of fine chocolates or a flowery card. Instead, God wrapped
His only Son in wrinkled flesh and proclaimed His undying love on
Calvary’s cross.
It’s crazy when you think about it, the way the
truest love of all stooped the lowest — so we might know the summit of
His glorious love. God sent Jesus to demonstrate how true love is
sacrificial at its core.
The shape of true love isn’t a diamond. It’s a cross.” -
Alicia Bruxvoort-The Overflow
Have a wonderful Friday and Valentine weekend...
