The world is passing from dependence into bondage hence, the loss of what God has blessed us with. Alexander Fraser Tyler (1748-1813) in his book, The Decline and Fall of The Athenian Republic stated: The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years, we read, and those nations progressed through this sequence: From Bondage to Spiritual Faith – From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage. From Courage to Liberty – From Liberty to Abundance. From Abundance to Selfishness – From Selfishness to Complacency. From Complacency to Apathy – From Apathy to Dependency. From Dependency back again into bondage.’

The world is in bondage to many things. Cliff Kincaid in his book, Global Bondage: The U.N. Plan to Rule the World, exposes United Nation’s plans for a World Government with ‘its already functioning World Army, forced abortion and forced sterilization,’ and most importantly ‘efforts to destroy the traditional family..’ The goal of a World government was the openly announced objective of the March 1995 United Nation sponsored World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, Denmark. Under the disguise of a ‘design to eradicate poverty,’ the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) issued a ‘Human Development Report,’openly calling for world government in a featured article written by a Nobel Prize-winning economist Jan Tinbergen. According to Tinbergen, ‘Mankind problem can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is a World Government. This can best be achieved by strengthening the United Nations system.’ The United Nations layers of bureaucracy including an ‘Economic Security Council,’ to manage a global human security fund and the Ministry of Social Affairs are part of World government inclusive agenda and bondage especially towards traditional family.

Political and inclusive correctness according to David Thibodaux ‘is an umbrella under which advocates of civil rights … have gathered.’ Moving beyond turning the educational system into a system of indoctrination, the political correct movement continue to pursue the redefinition of traditional Christian marriage and family. Spiritual valentine is a call to save traditional marriage and family in order to save the world. Abraham Lincoln’s timeless truth and simple words, ‘The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people,’ provides the need for spiritual valentine to promote healthy marriages and healing of homes in order to save the world from self destruction. Spiritual valentine points to the tenet of healthy Christian traditional relationships in order to overcome the oppositions pounding blows to Christianity and family structure, including treat of divorce, pornography, drug addiction, child abuse among others.

Love is becoming more of lustful passion than  committed promise hence, divorce is on the increase globally. Most marriages and remarriages end in divorce. Thornton Wilder provides a pointer to God’s plan for committed love. Using himself and his wife as example, he said ‘I married you because you gave me a promise. The promise make up for your faults. And the promise l gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married, and it was  the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn’t a house that protected them, and it wasn’t our love that protected them – it was promise.’ The reflection is that Biblical traditional marriages are built upon a God centred-promise, not just human passion that can die. Using the words of Wilder, ‘it’s not your love that sustains your commitment, it’s your commitment that sustains your love.’ In the first chapter of Ruth, in response to Naomi’s urge for Ruth to stay with her own people, Ruth expressed a commitment to a promise that sustained her love for her mother-in-law. Ruth said, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me (Ruth 1:16-17). It took a serious commitment and determination on the part of Ruth to sustained her love for Naomi (v 18). The reflection is that spiritual valentine is the love shaped by commitment with potentials in saving  marriage to save the world. The story of Gomer in Hosea chapter three also points to committed love and promise beyond love shaped by lustful passion that is very temporal. Spiritual valentine calls us to  a lifetime committed love that endures and secures traditional Christian family structure for the healing of the nations.

Spiritual valentine points to marriage as God’s vision, doing, and design for the world mission and evangelism. God established marriage as a covenant, not just a contract (Malachi 2:14; Proverbs 2:16-17). The marriage relationship was the first human institution established by God to serve and glorify Him (Genesis 2:24). A World government ‘low, casual, take-it-or-leave-it attitudes toward marriage’ and traditional family points to ‘cultural bondage that makes it almost impossible to feel the wonder of God’s purpose for marriage between a man and a woman’ (Gen 1:27-28). The reflection is for the church to be renewed as Pillar of Truth and not just a charity organisation under a World government. Spiritual valentine as a practice of saving marriage to save the world provides a mirror of Christ’s love for the church through the development of Christian character (Mal 2:15, Ps 112:1-2, Eph 5:25). Spiritual valentine is a call and prayer for youth renewal so that they can be used by God to set the world ‘free from small, worldly, culturally contaminated, self-centred, Christ-ignoring, God-neglecting, romance-intoxicated, unbiblical views of marriage’ (Gen 2:18-25).