First of all, I'd just like to recommend that you brush up on your VDAY history (i.e. Wikipedia it). Secondly, everything that this day entails has got me thinking: love is a good thing. But making an idol out of being in love is not. Here's what Tim Keller has to say on the subject:
Making an idol out of love may mean allowing the lover to exploit and abuse you, or it may cause terrible blindness to the pathologies in the relationship. An idolatrous attachment can lead you to break any promise, rationalize any indiscretion, or betray any other allegiance, in order to hold on to it. It may drive you to violate all good and proper boundaries. To practice idolatry is to be a slave. It has always been possible to make romantic love and marriage into a counterfeit god, but we live in a culture that makes it even easier to mistake love for God, to be swept up by it, and to rest all our hopes for happiness upon it.
I will keep it short and to the point.
Dear friends, please keep a close eye on how you view and think on romantic love. Believe me, I want to find "Mr. Right," get married, and stay married to him for my whole life just as much as the next girl. But I have too often and for too long allowed it to consume my entire world--to truly become an idol in my life--and it only ever resulted in blindness, broken boundaries, broken promises, and bitter tears and sorrow on both sides. Join me: let's not place all our hope in that guy or girl. Let's not place all our hope in idealistic romantic love. Instead, let's together allow that internal idol to be torn down and replaced by the only one who is truly worthy of our worship, love, trust, and obedience. Because Jesus Christ will never--can never-- disappoint or fail us. He loves us: thoroughly and completely. Let's live our lives loving him back.
