Love is in the air during the Month of February. Love for that special person in your life who seems to take your attention, or at least they should. It is a time of the year when we somewhat dedicate our feelings towards our spouses, and even as unmarried, send the message that they are someone special in your life. However, can I just give a quick challenge to all the readers? I don’t believe that we should only take the month of February to tell them, whether your husband or wife, how much in love you are with them.
If I may say, I’m certain that throughout the year, if anyone would ask you if you love your spouse, the most general answer would be “yes.” Then maybe even have a follow up question, “How much do you love them?” Well, now that is going to require a bit more thinking and a moment of contemplation with some. There is no argument in the fact that all married couples go through different struggles, emotional ups and downs, and maybe extended periods of being at odds with each other. However, there is one of the greatest elements that God has given us to not only overcome some of these “roller-coaster” rides of marriage but also have victory in them. It is the element of pure, non-diluted, unbounded love.
The Bible speaks about the power of love, how it overcomes resentment, overrides mistakes, and conquers faults either by others or by our own doings. Love is this constant driving, deep-seeded emotion that will pull the married couple closer, distinguish those moments when the air is heavy and you’re on “no speaking” terms. It is the love for our spouses that motivates us to take another bite of a burnt supper that the wife made in hopes to make you happy. Or a love that overlooks the time when your husband tried to help out around the house, sweeping the bedroom floor and sucked up your favorite pair of earrings.
Love is what brought you together, love is what pushed you both down the aisle. It was that love you felt when you put your hands together cutting the wedding cake. Can I say that same love is what will determine the longevity of your marriage? Love should not be lost as your family grows. Children become the time consumers and our secondary focus during the teenage years. Love will keep our focus on each other. Once the children are out of the home, on their own, and now the house becomes quiet once again as it did so many years ago, your love towards another continues because life didn’t detour you. Though we may find our age no longer in the late teens and early twenties, we are now in our fifties. Let not love diminish throughout the years but grow and develop more so.
We are in great need of moms and dads who display love before our children, becoming the example by which they should follow. Certainly, a card on Valentine’s Day is a wonderful gesture, but the proof of that card will be seen all of the other days throughout the year. May God help us love one another in such a way that others will recognize it and will have a desire to emulate it in their marriage.