LOVE: IT ALL BEGINS WITH HIM

Good Morning Friends!

I pray your Saturday – and your weekend – is off to a great start

Me? I am taking the opportunity to relax at home this morning and think on this thing called: LOVE ... AGAPE LOVE 

What is and why start our three week love journey here?

Agape love is the highest form of love – IT IS A GODLY LOVE

And without it, none of the other types of love we will be discussing over the coming weeks is possible. IT IS A SELFLESS, SACRIFICIAL AND UNCONDITIONAL TYPE OF LOVE

The closest that I believe most humans are able to get to this type of love is the love a parent has for a child. Which is fitting – since it is a love that should reflect the love our Heavenly Father. Yet, even the love of parents fail. Turn on the news any day of the week and you will, unfortunately, hear some horrific tale of some heinous action of a parent who was filled with anything but love for their child.

YET – THE LOVE OF GOD IS UNFAILING & UNCHANGING!

It can be seen from the first chapter of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation ...

and everywhere in between

Genesis 1: 26-28 chronicles our beginning: ‘Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness … So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them [and] v28 ‘God Blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase…”

He loved us so much that He made us in His image. And the first action on His heart after that, was an act which flowed out of His tremendous love for us:

GOD BLESSED THEM

Revelation 22:17 extends this invitation to all, ‘Let the one who is thirst come, and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.’

There are so many who are thirsty nowadays – thirsty for life, thirsty for love, thirsty for God

His love – that agape love – IT IS A NEVER ENDING LOVE

His love – that agape love – IT IS NOT BROKEN … like so many are on the inside

His love – that agape love – IT MEETS US WHERE WE ARE & cuts through our brokenness

His love – that agape love – IT IS AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING LOVE

His love – that agape love – IT SURROUNDS US

His love is without demand or condition

Knowing us fully – with all of our faults – HE STILL LOVES US COMPLETELY

That is some kind of love!!!

Praying Your Day is Blessed &

The Remainder of Your Weekend, Filled with Love