June 1
Agape Love
Are you a loving person? Most people will answer very quickly, Yes! I’m not talking about romantic love. I’m talking about Agape love: showing un-conditional love, doing something for someone with no expectations in return. Jesus was our best example in showing un-selfish love: John 15:13 NIV “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” The Message Bible says, “This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends.”
Wikipedia says, “Love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection; and the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”.
Jesus showed us how to love, without wanting anything in return, loving the un-lovely. God, You took time for those who didn’t understand love, yet you loved them. Help us to love when someone isn’t worthy of our love, to love the hurting & oppressed, the dying, and the sick in heart.
Maybe, you are having a hard time trying to love your co-worker who annoys you, the drug addict down the street who steals money for his habit, or maybe you are scared to show love towards anyone because no one has ever loved you.
Whatever the issues of life that have tried to hinder you from loving- I encourage you today to allow God to prune out the things that have stopped the flow of love. God, we ask You to cultivate a heart of love in us. We declare that our hearts will overflow with the Love of the Lord. We will show love to those whom you put in our paths. Because He first loved us, we can love! “Greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Thank you God for changing our hearts into gentle tender hearts, full of love one for another. Let your love be contagious! Love Never Fails!
In partnership with Katherine Clift of DailyLiveWorship
Agape Love
Are you a loving person? Most people will answer very quickly, Yes! I’m not talking about romantic love. I’m talking about Agape love: showing un-conditional love, doing something for someone with no expectations in return. Jesus was our best example in showing un-selfish love: John 15:13 NIV “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” The Message Bible says, “This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends.”
Wikipedia says, “Love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection; and the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”.
Jesus showed us how to love, without wanting anything in return, loving the un-lovely. God, You took time for those who didn’t understand love, yet you loved them. Help us to love when someone isn’t worthy of our love, to love the hurting & oppressed, the dying, and the sick in heart.
Maybe, you are having a hard time trying to love your co-worker who annoys you, the drug addict down the street who steals money for his habit, or maybe you are scared to show love towards anyone because no one has ever loved you.
Whatever the issues of life that have tried to hinder you from loving- I encourage you today to allow God to prune out the things that have stopped the flow of love. God, we ask You to cultivate a heart of love in us. We declare that our hearts will overflow with the Love of the Lord. We will show love to those whom you put in our paths. Because He first loved us, we can love! “Greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Thank you God for changing our hearts into gentle tender hearts, full of love one for another. Let your love be contagious! Love Never Fails!
In partnership with Katherine Clift of DailyLiveWorship
