Brother Albert R.
Jesus loved us and said we should Love our enemies
I have heard it said that we have one type of love for our friends and another type of love for our family and another type of love for God and another type for.....
Jesus said that no man has greater love than that he lay down his life for his friends. If it is a friendship love then can it be the greatest kind of love?
(I am not a Greek scholar so I will not comment on, or differentiate between agape or phileo)
I believe that God has given all of us the capacity to love since the first day Adam looked at Eve. Sin has distorted our love since then, in that we now love things more than people or God. God has to reset our priorities as He sheds His love in our hearts by His Holy Spirit. I do not believe I love my wife, my mother, my sister, my brothers, my friends, with different kinds of love but rather that I relate to them differently because I am in a different relationship with them. It is the same love I have in my heart for all of them...it is simply that...my love causes me to care for all of them and will cause me to lay down my life for any of them. Love values those to whom it is placed upon. Love desires above all to be reciprocated by the one it has valued...and it hurts when it is not. Love cannot be separated by space or time and it will move heaven and earth to be with the one it loves...
Your thoughts...
Brother ALbert
PS My favorite love scriptures...
Matthew 22:36-40 New International Version (NIV)
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus said that no man has greater love than that he lay down his life for his friends. If it is a friendship love then can it be the greatest kind of love?
(I am not a Greek scholar so I will not comment on, or differentiate between agape or phileo)
I believe that God has given all of us the capacity to love since the first day Adam looked at Eve. Sin has distorted our love since then, in that we now love things more than people or God. God has to reset our priorities as He sheds His love in our hearts by His Holy Spirit. I do not believe I love my wife, my mother, my sister, my brothers, my friends, with different kinds of love but rather that I relate to them differently because I am in a different relationship with them. It is the same love I have in my heart for all of them...it is simply that...my love causes me to care for all of them and will cause me to lay down my life for any of them. Love values those to whom it is placed upon. Love desires above all to be reciprocated by the one it has valued...and it hurts when it is not. Love cannot be separated by space or time and it will move heaven and earth to be with the one it loves...
Your thoughts...
Brother ALbert
PS My favorite love scriptures...
Matthew 22:36-40 New International Version (NIV)
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
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