Wednesday... We either love it or hate it.

Today is February 14th. Today is Valentine's Day and we either love it or hate it. It all depends upon what is happening or has happened in our lives.

I read Mark 15 this morning and this is what the last verse of this chapter, verse 42 (NLT) says, "Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where Jesus' body was laid." They had just gone through the worst day of their life. All their hopes and dreams had been killed and they were watching Jesus being buried. This was not a good day.

And then I also read Psalm 44 and this was also a bad day for the writer but he ended it by saying in verse 36, "Rise up! Help us! Ransom us because of your unfailing love."

Of course, all we know today is what we have gone through. We can't see tomorrow. So today is either a good day or a day with pain attached to it but the truth is if we have a relationship with God it is a day with hope attached to it because of God's unfailing love for us.

Now the two Marys and all the other followers of Jesus didn't know what was about to happen. They didn't realize that God's great unfailing love for them was being shown. All they could feel was the pain of Friday and also Saturday but Sunday was coming and that day would make all the difference because Jesus was going to be resurrected. He was going to show how much he really loved them and us.

There may be a lot of hopes and dreams that have been buried in your life but today we can celebrate that there is one who loves us with an unfailing love. And we too can pray, "Rise up! Help us! Ransom us because of your unfailing love."

Yes, there is someone who really, really loves us with an unfailing love. And we can celebrate that fact today. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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