Agape - God's love for you is patient and unmovable
God understands your frame and he is patient towards you. He is not looking for your faults to punish you.
Perhaps the best description of God's Love is seen in Luke 15, the story of the prodigal son.
Despite the boy's misdeeds, the father(God) ran towards him while he was yet afar off to welcome him back.
Your mistakes can't scare God's love away, He loves you unrepentantly.
For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.
The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.
So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. #Agape
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One of the greatest ways of expressing love to others is by praying for them. When we commit others to God's hands, we not only give them our best, we also engage the divine in their affairs.
We should pray for our friends as well as our enemies, those above us and those below us, in short, we are required to pray for all men.
I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone-- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior,
When we think about loving the poor, our first (and perhaps only) thoughts are to give to them. While it is good to give, the most important part of loving the poor is standing up for them. Ensuring that they have justice.
God wants you to 'speak up' for the voiceless and help the helpless. The privileges you enjoy are yours for the purpose of helping others.
What sorrow awaits the unjust judges and those who issue unfair laws. They deprive the poor of justice and deny the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and take advantage of orphans.
This is what the LORD Almighty said: Administer true justice; show mercy..
Christian marriages are built on Agape and strengthened by Eros. Be satisfied always with the love of your spouse.
Do you know that scriptures says denying your spouse his/her marital rights is fraud before God?(1 Cor 7:4 Amp). Love your spouse.
Drink water from your own well— share your love only with your wife. Why spill the water of your springs in the streets, having sex with just anyone? You should reserve it for yourselves. Never share it with strangers. Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you...
..Rejoice in the wife of your youth... May you always be captivated by her love.
The husband should fulfill his wife's sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband's needs. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his..
This is romantic love designed by God for couples in marriage (union of a man and a woman). it involves both physical attraction and sexual desires. It is not wrong in itself but when expressed outside marriage, it contravenes God's will.
Thus an unmarried Christian should stay away from erotic love, and if of marriageable age, should go and get married rather than burn with lust. The single should treat members of the opposite sex as siblings with all purity.
Never speak harshly to an older man, but appeal to him respectfully as though he were your own father. Talk to the younger men as you would to your own brothers. Treat the older women as you would your mother, and treat the younger women with all purity as your own sisters.
There are four types of Love in scriptures and one of them is family love (Storge). it is the affectionate bond that develops naturally between parents and children, brothers and sisters. Examples include Mary and Martha's love for Lazarus etc.
Thus as a christian, you have to love your family members regardless of their disposition to you. You are instructed to love and obey your parents. And not ignore your family
When Jesus saw his mother standing there beside the disciple he loved, he said to her, "Woman, he is your son."
And he said to this disciple, "She is your mother." And from then on this disciple took her into his home.
The 2nd and final commandment under the new covenant is to love our neighbour. Now, when Jesus was asked to define who ones neighbour is, he gave a very interesting analogy, the good Samaritan.
It was not lost on his audience that the man he picked as their neighbour was from a despised foreign country(John 4:9). So yes, you are to love everybody regardless of creed, ethnic or class.
A second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments."