Agape Love
America blows me away. It really does - we have a TV at Lenny's that stays on CNN News - and sometimes I just can't even watch it. What the heck is wrong with people?! I watch story after story of abused children, men killing pregnant women, kids beating each other to the point of deafness/blindness because they think it's funny, girls being forced to marry at puberty - only to get pregnant and be abused by older husbands. WHAT IS GOING ON?! It's just so scary to see where America is at - and more, to think about where this country is going! The more I think about it, the more it absolutely disgusts me... and I find myself asking God, "What's going on??" How can God allow this to go on? He zapped Sodom and Gomorrah - why hasn't he zapped America yet?
I am reading Max Lucado's "3:16" and in it he says:
"...this is the world God loves. 'For God so loved the world...' this hard-hearted, stiff-necked world. We bow before gold-plated cows; still He loves us. We stick our noses where we shouldn't; still he pursues us. We run from the very one who can help, but he doesn't give up. He loves. He pursues. He persists."
In John 3:16 the word "love" is similar to the word Greek word "agape" - God so [agapao] the world...
Lucado writes "Agape love. Less an affection, more a decision; less a feeling, more an action."
Linguist W.E. Vine writes, "Agape love is an exercise of the Divine will in deliberate choice, made without assignable cause save that which lies in the nature of God himself."
This kind of love is expressed through an elderly man, who can no longer take care of his wife, so he sends her to a nursing home - and diligently visits her day in and day out. He's there from the time she wakes up until the time she goes to bed. It is demonstrated through a daddy who wakes up every hour of the night to check on his paralyzed teenager. It's demonstrated ultimately, through God, our father! Who so loved us, that He gave his one and only son, so whoever believes in him should not parish, but have ETERNAL LIFE!
"What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give on kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's" - M. Lucado
Agape Love. Hallelujah, what a Savior!!
I am reading Max Lucado's "3:16" and in it he says:
"...this is the world God loves. 'For God so loved the world...' this hard-hearted, stiff-necked world. We bow before gold-plated cows; still He loves us. We stick our noses where we shouldn't; still he pursues us. We run from the very one who can help, but he doesn't give up. He loves. He pursues. He persists."
In John 3:16 the word "love" is similar to the word Greek word "agape" - God so [agapao] the world...
Lucado writes "Agape love. Less an affection, more a decision; less a feeling, more an action."
Linguist W.E. Vine writes, "Agape love is an exercise of the Divine will in deliberate choice, made without assignable cause save that which lies in the nature of God himself."
This kind of love is expressed through an elderly man, who can no longer take care of his wife, so he sends her to a nursing home - and diligently visits her day in and day out. He's there from the time she wakes up until the time she goes to bed. It is demonstrated through a daddy who wakes up every hour of the night to check on his paralyzed teenager. It's demonstrated ultimately, through God, our father! Who so loved us, that He gave his one and only son, so whoever believes in him should not parish, but have ETERNAL LIFE!
"What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give on kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's" - M. Lucado
Agape Love. Hallelujah, what a Savior!!
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