Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love! (Song of Songs 5:1 ESV)
Celebrate
We humans grasp, at times, reasons to celebrate. Celebrating birthdays seems to ignore the trials of the last year. Celebrating graduation does not seem to note the difficult choices, hard work, and insecurity of tomorrow’s job market. Celebrating military victories might be forgetting the loss, the tears, and the terror of war.
But God’s people, Christians, have something to celebrate.
We celebrate love. First, God’s unconditional love of His people. He alone truly fully completely loves, and He loves US. Second, our Savior’s sacrificial love. He loves us without reward, without benefits, without even notice sometimes. Third, God’s people imitate Him. We can love as we have been loved. We can love as we have been taught. We can love because we have been changed.
We are peculiar, we have reason to celebrate, always.