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Valentines And Hearts

Wednesday February 14, 2024
 

Will you be my Valentine?  This day is meant to remind us of love and of hearts joined together in intimate friendship and commitment.  Our life in recovery also has something to do with a new heart, union with another, and intimate friendship with commitment.  God’s desire for us is to have a deep and satisfying personal relationship with Him.  God has shared His heart with us and invited us to share our hearts with Him.  

In the Scriptures we read that God generously expresses His tender love and kindness towards us.  However, too often we have been too busy with our own agenda to give much attention to God’s offer of friendship.  We’ve been too focused on wrongs done to us, hurts suffered by us, and painful memories that give us an excuse to continue in the destructive habits of our addiction. 

Cards and gifts with hearts on them are often exchanged with friends and loved ones on Valentine’s Day.  God is offering us a beautiful heart – a healed and forgiven heart – a heart we desperately need to replace our broken, wounded heart.  Let’s take the opportunity today to think about and respond to God’s offer of love and friendship as we celebrate this Valentine’s Day. 

“I’ll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean. I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed. I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands.” (Ezekiel 36:25-27 MSG) 

Without God in our lives, our heart truly is as hard as stone.  It is filled with revenge, with hateful anger, with resentment, with bitterness, and with self-righteous judgment.  It’s been scarred by unforgiven records of hatred and judgment against those who have harmed us.  There’s no “fixing” that stuff.  We need to hand over that dead and dried up old heart and receive a new one that is loving and soft and tender. 

Prayer:  Gracious Lord, Today I come to You and ask You to remove my stony heart which is filled with resentment and bitterness towards those who have harmed me.  Create in me a clean heart that is gentle and forgiving and filled to overflowing with Your love. Help me to love others as You love me. Amen

 

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