Valentine’s Day is all about showing love for “special someone.” I remember an episode of The Simpsons where Lisa Simpson had to do that. One of her valentine’s cards went to a nerdy little boy named Ralph Wiggum. It said on the cover of the card, “I choo-choo-choose you” (with a picture of a train, of course). Ralph took it literally and pursued Lisa. Of course, it is His love that prompted ours. “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19 NKJV). Yes, it is true: God “choo-choo-chooses you!” Not because He had to, like Lisa, but because He wanted to! “Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure” (Ephesians 1:4–5 NLT). – Greg Laurie
Posted on: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:53:23 +0000