Thread by @IdowuOkuneye

Agape

God's Love gives choices
The most voiced question to God loving us is why are there still bad occurrences in the world?
The answer is love gives choice. While God wants the best for us, he still allows man to make a choice to follow him or not.

Our world is thus the cumulation of the choices that people have made.

Even today, God is still beckoning on the world to accept his love but he will not force himself or his way on us. We have to choose to obey him.

Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between life and death, between prosperity and disaster. For I command you this day to love the Lord your God and to keep his commands, decrees, and regulations by walking in his ways. If you do this, you will live and multiply,

and the Lord your God will bless you and the land you are about to enter and occupy.

We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served... But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
#Agape

On love giving choices, every parent knows that furniture, electricity, cooking utensils are all potentially harmful things to your child but when your child reaches a certain age, you stop protecting your child from them but rather teach the child to manage them.

While you hope that your child never jumps from the chair (they do behind you anyway), your love will move you to tend to their sprains if they get injured.
Locking your child in a room permanently and removing all potentially harmful things will not be called love but slavery.

Yet some expect that from God. He should take away all potential pains (even though they are designed for our good and God has given us a manual and His Spirit to teach and guide us).
Choice is a necessary feature of love.