Happy Valentine Day!!
Well all around the globe today is world lovers day; a day where people show love to thier loved ones and couple solidify their marital vows etc.
So what is love?? So many people/professors have gone from time to time to define what love really means from blindness to selflessness to making the other half happy to being there for the person but yet still no one can really satisfactorily define the meaning of love.... Well atleast not to me just yet.
So in my own words(which is not still satisfactory no doubt lol) I think love is whatever you feel would make the other half happy, what you'd love/cherish being shown, the attitudes, readjustments, adaptation and understanding. I think if you look at that definition you would see that it takes a whoooole lot just to love
Source : Durex facebook page
if you must have sex(for singles) please choose safety first
So let's cast our minds back to our(christians) first love, Jesus Christ!! To me I think the love Christ gave is the greatest kind of love one could ever dream of. If not for anything changing from the "commandments era" to the "grace era" is something I personally thank God for every blessed day, you could refer back to the Old Testament.
OK if u didn't get my last paragraph, you do know about the story of lot, Jonah, pharaoh, Ananias, and many more. I mean everyone had to live and abide with those commandments else you are dead like I mean dead!!. I don't even want to talk about the 12boys who were eaten by the beasts instantly for just making mockery at a man of God.
But you see and would agree with me today, we have lots of David, Ananias, Lot and many more and some of them are even elder statesmen in our different churches and yet still they are still alive!! Christ came and gave up the commandments saying for if ye confess and forsake your sins(old ways) and be baptized, old things have passed away and everything have become new!! well aside that covenant I don't know where some of us could have been today. No other love than Christ choosing to shade his own blood and set a thief free. Well you could really see that Christ gave us the best love we could dream of, and even some of our relationships have broken up with issues least compared to that. But today I didn't come to talk about the Bible lol, let's proceed to the wrong perception people get on Valentine's Day!!
Valentine's Day is Love Day not Sex Day!!
A wise man was once given between money and knowledge to choose from which he choose money. In awe everyone asked why knowledge he replied " wisdom not money is power".
Many youths today have been fed with the wrong mindset that today is world's sex day!! Well I'm not interfering with whatever you want to do with your body but if you must join in this global celebration then atleast you must understand why.
So many friend(s) of mine have bought condoms, alcoholic wines, steroids, sex enhancers etc just to please their "sex mates" but where does that takes you to?? For every drug you take there are side effects of it.. You could turn an addict especially with weed and steroids. That means if you don't take it you cannot carry out a certain task!! Is that what you want to take into your marriage??
OK let me tell you a little story.... 2years ago today a friend had made arrangements with a lady, they were to meet at a certain hotel and carry out "thier Valentine" so after going through allllll the stress of booking the hotel, getting wines ready, new clothes, sending transportation and even neglecting business for the day and also taking enhancers (as guy now you no fit dull lol) the lady could not make it!!! The way those drugs tormented him for almost 2days till we had to find an alternative for him wasn't a good sight!! So you see where wrong perception could get you for starters....
Valentine's Day is One of 365 days
Yes 14th February is a day out of 365 days and believe me you need to be in good shape the next 364days of the year. This is a day most people go out of their way to make their fairytale a reality for some relationships that wouldn't even last the month.... Can you believe that??!!
Okay to the above story I said, this guy had to get the girl and himself new clothes, Buy assorted wines, arrange for a romantic dinner, keep extra cash for the girl, buy a surprise gift for her(phone), book a good hotel amongst others I didn't even know of now how much is that?? You could agree it's nothing less than #150,000
that's about $417 which could have even risen more owing to his preference and also that I never got the whole clue. So when you check out the kind of money spent just for a day!!, well you should definitely be a millionaire to do that, but believe me I don't know where he cuffed that from. That is kind of a waste if you'd ask me for an "ordinary" person. Coming!! you have bills to pay, emergencies, and the rest but u choose to waste $417 for a day... In my own case it didn't even work out SMH.
I could go on and on to talk about the bad perceptions people get toward to day and the effects like Stds, rape, bankrupt, unwanted pregnancy and yes you could even get killed. But let me key your mind to the 5 things you could be doing today If you are celebrating Valentine.
Go to church
Today is 14th February and for me I think the year is still young and not too late either to go ask God for a good 2018 if you never started off that way. Also around the world churches like Methodist Church and Catholic Church celebrate Ash Wednesday. Why not go and thank God for seeing today, you aren't in control of your life... You never know what might happen the next 24hrs do you??
Visit your family and friends
The world is "on a run" right now and people are very busy just trying to catch up their daily tasks and other needs. From education to work to business to sports and so on people get glued throughout the day even keeping some daily tasks unattended.
Footballers for example run 11 of 12 months in a year trying to either play, do adverts, represent their country, represent their brands and ultimately their clubs week in week out and even today is champions league lol. So you see If by chance you are given time off today you should use it wisely, your family and friends need you!!
Visit the Orphanage
Valentine's Day is about showing love, and luckily too one of the major commandments in almost all doctrines in the world is giving of alms, giving back to the needy!! You look around yourself today there are people that don't deserve the condition they find themselves in, God kept you at a better place so you could be of help to them so when you aren't fulfilling that objective what's your aim?? Homes like motherless babies, widows, leprosy amongst others are places to visit in a day like this, since they don't have someone they could easily call on, why not make their day... Make them feel loved??
Go to see a movie/recreation
You know you are always busy!! Now you might have time today so why not use it well?? You body/mind needs to relax and get a taste of good time. Common! Go to the park, go for a swim, play some snooker or you go to see a movie!! I heard "50 shades freed" is premiering today so why not consider that in you log today?? Believe me when they say "all work and no play makes jack(you) a dull boy"..... You don't wanna wake up tomorrow heading somewhere and looking like you just returned from battlefield yesternight aye??
Spend quality time with your spouse!!
Before I get down with this please make sure you reread the heading and get it first!!, I said "spend quality time with your spouse". When I say spouse I mean married, and someone you see a future together .... Personally I hate wasting time on things that aren't worth if so if they are worth it I owe them my time today!!
Running a home or keeping up with a relationship(serious one) could be very tasking owing to the fact that you have bills, work, family, emergencies and even yourself to cater for and now with another person in mind(or maybe your home) ..... I think they deserve your quality time today!!
Source : prophet Holmes
well I think you've read enough although there are other things I still left out for the sake of not boring some with too much talks. Personally today I'll be doing some homeworks and school related activities as exams is coming up soon. But that notwithstanding today is Valentine so what needs to be done needs to be done. I hope it was worth your time reading this and you could help by resteeming this post so it gets to reach lots of people around the globe