February 14, 2018 www.PositiveChristianity.org presents Positive Daily Inspiration

 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY 

"Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law." Romans 13:10

Today’s date has double meaning. It is Valentine’s Day celebrating love, and it is also Ash Wednesday. For Ash Wednesday we encourage you to follow God by giving up unloving thoughts for the 40 days of Lent.

Life can be an exciting journey and it is love that makes that journey worthwhile. Life is Love. Love is Life. Who would live and not love? Living and not loving is taking the heaven out of life and replacing it with a hellish empty environment.

In Luke 6:31 Jesus teaches the Golden rule: "Do to others as you would have them do to you."

The Golden rule is love made manifest. We all want to be treated in loving ways, in order to receive love we must give it first.

Evan H. Hopkins said, "While it is faith that makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy." The great Martin Luther King Jr. stated correctly, "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." 

In the end, in every area of life, you are judged by how loving you were. 
Time that is not spent loving is wasted.

A theologian once stated, no matter what the question, love is the answer. 
Love is the oil that takes the friction out of life. Neale Donald Walsch stated correctly, "At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

Love does not boast. It is not the ego proclaiming how good it is by being loving. It is the humble person that simply gives. 

"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." Ephesians 4:2

We must love each other and love life itself. Try to actively love your life 
and it will love you right back. Love is appreciating to such a degree that you feel overwhelmed with joy.  

If you love someone, let them know it. Never miss an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God." 1 John 4:7

Because God is love, unless we love, we do not follow God. This is true every day of the week but perhaps, even more important on Sunday when we are in our house of worship. 

1 John 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

Matthew 22:37-39, Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

Spiritually, love is not about getting, but giving.

Make it a rule and keep it every day... Never, if possible, go to bed at night 
without being able to say, "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, a little better, because I was loving this day."

Many ask what their purpose is. Many ask how they can follow God more. 
The answers are contained within this Positive Daily Inspiration.

You do this above all. 1 Peter 4:8, "ABOVE ALL, love each other deeply." Colossians 3:14, "And OVER ALL THESE virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is discord, union;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that we may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. 
Amen.
St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I follow the way of Christ, I follow the way of love, no matter what the price, I walk the high path not deviating from my spiritual course.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: "If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world." Emmet Fox  

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GOD BLESS YOU, Make It a Great Day !_______Christopher Ian Chenoweth