Hearts

 

Hearts

God loves you!

Yes, it's true.

And He has sent reminders, too,

growing in our gardens as clues.

In the morning these reminders may be covered with dew.

Some of these lovely reminders have flowers of blue.

Wild violets contain a clue

that God does love me and you.

There are reminders found in leaves of sunflowers, too.

Even the shape of the cone flower leaf contains a clue.

Perennial forget-me-nots send the same message, it's true.

The leaves of brown-eyed susans also sprout this loving clue.

Elephant ears and caladiums are a few

large leaves from bulbs that yearly debut

as daily reminders for you,

for we need reminders anew.

What do these plants, so different, have in common, they do,

though their flowers may be yellow, gold, pink, purple, or blue?

Each heart-shaped leaf is a valentine just for you -

a daily reminder that God loves us, it's true.

Did God purposely plan, did He construe,

for heart-shaped leaves to remind me and you

that He loves us through and through?

Never doubt God loves you. It's true.

Take a stroll around your yard to review

other heart-shaped leaves that grew

as a reminder that God loves you,

then be sure to tell the Lord "thank you."

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Love is who God is.

Where God is, love is.

God's love for us

gave us Jesus.

Jesus, God's Son,

His beloved One,

our redeeming substitute

from a life destitute.

It was love for you and me

that sent Jesus to the tree

where He died to give us liberty

there on the cross of Calvary.

Liberty, our freedom,

from a lifetime of sins.

Not ever earned, but free,

as Jesus paid the fee.

Simply believe

then receive

God's loving plan of redemption

offering eternal salvation.

Greater love has no one than this,

that he lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13

This is how we know what love is:

Jesus Christ lad down his life for us.

I John 3:16

This is love; not that we loved God,

but that he loved us and sent his Son

as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

I John 4:10

God demonstrates his own love for us in this:

while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,

that we should be called children of God!

And that is what we are!

I John 3:1

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