LOVE IS A CHOICE-AGAPE LOVE

 JOHN 18:23 Jesus answered him, “If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?”

God’s kind of love is not self-serving or self-seeking. Agape love will cause a person to lay down his life for another (Jn. 15:13), because he has literally forgotten himself.

 

Many times when hero’s are asked why they put themselves in jeopardy to save someone else, they reply that they didn’t even think about themselves.
*All they thought of was the danger to the other person. That’s God’s kind of love.

 

1. God’s type of love involves emotions many times, but it is not an emotion.
God’s Love is an act of the will.
*We can choose to love even when we don’t feel like it and we can always conduct ourselves in a godly manner, when we feel God’s kind of love.
**God’s kind of love is a choice.
2. God’s kind of love is also the antidote to selfishness and pride.

*We cannot conquer self by focusing on self. The only way to win over self is to fall in love with God more than with ourselves.
*It is in discovering God’s love that we lose self love.

Jesus is the ultimate example of God’s kind of love.

In 1 Corinthians 13:4-13 –(The Love Chapter) Paul’s words on love gives us insight into the heart of God, and God’s love for us. As God has loved us, may we love one another…

 

God is love.(1 JN 4:8)  God’s Love is the only solid foundation upon which human love can be built. If “feelings” have diminished or died within a relationship,  only Agape can rekindle the flame.

“…the things impossible with men are possible with God.” Luke 18:27 

 

Thank You God for true love, endless love.   We love because You FIRST loved us.  Amen