Father, I accept that You love me with everlasting love and are drawing me closer to You with the chords of Your supernatural love, grace, and mercy. Your love for me is unshakable. It’s unchangeable. You will never forsake me, and You are with me to the ends of the earth. Thank You, Lord, that You have an eternal love for me that shall endure forever.
Jeremiah 31:3 I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness, I have drawn you.
DiVoran has been writing for most of her life. Her first attempt at a story was when she was seven years old and her mother got a new typewriter. DiVoran got to use it and when her dad saw her writing he asked what she was writing about. DiVoran answered that she was writing the story of her life. Her dad’s only comment was, “Well, it’s going to be a very short story.” After most of a lifetime of writing and helping other writers, DiVoran finally launched her own dream which was to write a novel of her own. She now has her Florida Springs trilogy and her novel, a Christian Western Romance, Go West available on Amazon. When speaking about her road to publication, she gives thanks to the Lord for all the people who helped her grow and learn. She says, “I could never have done it by myself, but when I got going everything fell beautifully into place, and I was glad I had started on my dream.”
I want to cry out “Help, I’m married to a man made of stone. I wish just once, on Valentine’s Day, he would display a little romance.”
Is romance what she really wanted? Here is the definition: Romance is the expressive and pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person associated with love. (Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance)
Who wants romance associated with love? We want true love, complete and everlasting. Let’s be real. From the beginning we women have been fooled by the longing for romance and mixed it up with love.
The woman at the well mentioned in the Bible has no name, possibly because she bears the name of most women today.
She’s hungry for acceptance, for fulfillment, wholeness, nurturing and lasting commitment. But many Valentine’s Days go by and the emptiness still aches.
Here are seven ways to find true love, the sincere kind of love that goes beyond Valentine’s Day’s fancy dinners and red roses.
Remember that what you want is not the feeling romance brings, but the love that commitment holds.
Resist the Hollywood kind of love and choose instead the forever kind of love from the Holy One.
Refrain from believing the lies that romance fills the emptiness.
Realize the Lover of your soul waits for you.
Receive the never-ending love Jesus offers you.
Revive the passion of love for Him who loved you first.
Reject Satan’s lies that lure you to relationships empty of love.
The woman standing beside the well missed all of the above. She longed for the human kind of love to soothe her lonely nights. Thus, her thirst was constant. Jesus knew. He answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water” (John 4:13-14).
Let’s Pray
Father how often we keep reaching out to the world for satisfaction, and cling to another human being to find true love. I choose to drink the water that will keep my heart hydrated not only on Valentine’s Day, but every moment where loneliness tries to come in. In Jesus’s name, amen
What is your heart thirsty for?
Who loves you with an everlasting love?
Have you found true love yet?
Janet
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