Have you ever wondered what the definition of love is? Today, I had a interesting thought and was wondering what it was. More so that I want to write about Agape love. So what is Agape Love?
Agape love is self-sacrificial. It is a unique love and can be seen from your nature and character. This unique love is from God and of God. As I was doing my Emmaus Study, I came across this attribute about God. It states that God is love. It is God's nature to love. As it is stated in 1 John 4: 8, "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." Although God hates sin, He loves sinners as in Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God gave up His own beloved Son to die on the cross for me. What more can I ask for?
So now when I think of what love is, I am reminded of John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." If the Lord can love a sinner, what more me that I have now become His child and I can call Him Abba Father. Amen!
The picture below is a nearby hillock, with a Moslem's cemetery on top and a broken cistern in its rocky face, bears the resemblance to a skull, which could be Golgotha. Every time I go through my pictures of my trip of Israel, I am reminded of this place where Jesus was crucified. Mark 15:22 "They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull)."
Lord I pray that I be more and more like you and love with out ceasing. Amen!
Agape love is self-sacrificial. It is a unique love and can be seen from your nature and character. This unique love is from God and of God. As I was doing my Emmaus Study, I came across this attribute about God. It states that God is love. It is God's nature to love. As it is stated in 1 John 4: 8, "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." Although God hates sin, He loves sinners as in Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God gave up His own beloved Son to die on the cross for me. What more can I ask for?
So now when I think of what love is, I am reminded of John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." If the Lord can love a sinner, what more me that I have now become His child and I can call Him Abba Father. Amen!
The picture below is a nearby hillock, with a Moslem's cemetery on top and a broken cistern in its rocky face, bears the resemblance to a skull, which could be Golgotha. Every time I go through my pictures of my trip of Israel, I am reminded of this place where Jesus was crucified. Mark 15:22 "They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull)."
Lord I pray that I be more and more like you and love with out ceasing. Amen!
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