GOD’S VALENTINE 2:14!
By Kay Hill
Like no other, the Lord’s Valentine Song. I promise. But into retro
mode for just a minute. My fifth-grade girlfriends and I delighted to
retrieve lacy valentines replete with rhymes from the big red crepe-
paper box painstakingly designed by our spinster teacher, Margaret
Munz. I admit we sometimes counted to see which girl received the most
cards, each promising scripted lines of corny puppy love.(As a boy
momma myself, I now realize those little males’ mothers probably
signed and sealed our treasured tokens of make-believe affection!
Such was mid-February in Moody Elementary. Somewhere along the way,
though, we all grew up--Shirley Ann, Betty, Annette and I. Each of us
matured to the place of desiring true and enduring love--I’d even say
Perfect Love! And sure enough, on March 14, 1954, I did find “Him Whom
my soul loves.” Rather. Christ Jesus found me at the altar of Willow
Grove Baptist Church only a few scant miles from Daddy’s cotton fields
near Moody.
Here, then, is that Divine Valentine--purchased by Christ’s Blood and
received for all eternity. Reading from the King James Version of
Scripture: “Oh, My dove [that word translates “a dove that mates once
for a lifetime”], that art in the cleft of the rock [God sees us in
our hard and rugged moments], in the secret places of the stairs [when
every step forward seems an uphill climb], let Me see thy countenance;
let Me hear thy voice [He waits for us to come near Him]; for sweet is
thy voice [. . . and He longs to hear our hearts speak only to Him];
and thy countenance is comely!” [Comely--That adjective means weak,
dependent, and ...attractive! --Song of Solomon 2:14 KJV.
Forget the lace paper and scantily-clad cupids with arrows. Who
really needs chocolate-heart candy and expensive perfume? Six-course
dinners and an evening at the opera? Personally, I qualify for my
First Love’s intimacy because I am weak and dependent--but attractive
to Jesus! No other love--no other love--is like His Love!
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