This is not for lovers. Clearly, I am not a lover of anyone in particular, but I write this not out of bitterness but out of shedding light to something I know as truth. (What’s with the heavy disclaimer?)
This day is a day of feast for those with a significant someone whether the significant someone knows its status in someone’s life or not. It is a day of chocolates, Hallmark greeting cards, of dinners and Durex consumptions. It is a day of one’s need to satisfy oneself and/or another but never to celebrate anything this day normally professes – St. Valentine or something.
I don't want to ruin Valentine's Day but, yeah, I want to ruin Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day is not to be celebrated by anyone who confesses himself or herself as a believer and/or lover of God. It is of pagan origin that roots from the need of the early pagan converts to still practice their old ways by adapting their festivities into Christianity. This is tradition to celebrate the fertility of Lupercalia, a she-goat that nursed Romulus and Remus. These two are, according to legends, founders of the mighty nation of Rome.
I don’t think that as believers, we should associate ourselves to old practices of pagans, especially if they have nothing to do with our faith in God. This is detestable for Him (Deut. 12: 29-31). And we, set free from the clutches of sin, should always be wary of these practices to retain and maintain the God-given freedom bestowed upon us for free. God is loving, merciful and just, but He is also all-knowing and powerful that no way can we justify in front of Him our need to celebrate these nonsense celebrations in an ignorant hope of thinking we are doing this for Him.
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