Happy new month family! It's almost as if we blinked and February appeared, God has truly been good. If January was a messy warm up count it all joy 'cos there are still eleven more months to experience glorious things. The season is hear again folks, hearts are been coloured red, sales and getaways, lots and lots ofchocolates are gonna be sold, dinner for two reservations, others might have a netflix binge on romance movies. I guess you know where i am headed with this already. Yes, you guessed right- the four letter word that has been used, misused and abused-L.O.V.E.
Call it a cliché but I believe Father would want us to grasp what Love really is.Afterall God is love. First it is important we establish that there are dimensions to love-call it "types of love" if you like; which the Greeks identified- philio: this describes the love a parent naturally has for the child;then kind you have for a sister, brother or friend- the natural kind of love, eros: this describes the sensual love, deeply appealing to the emotions and feelings; and finally agape which is God's love for us-pure, sacrificial and overwhelmingly LARGE! This would be our focus in this series.
You see, philio and eros are limited to human feelings and abilities, self serving and myopic. But the Love Father would have us manifest, that which he would have us be is Agape-His very nature, his very essence.
Have you thought of parents that scream "I disown you. I never want to set eyes on you ever again!" This father would have at a point said "I love you son" but that was philio and unfortunately Jack messed up and philio.got exhausted and fed up of Jack's horrible lifestyle.
I would have you know friend that true love, agape love, the love Father has for you is never ending, never changing. Agape is God himself. Eternal, pure and true!It is enough to drown your errors , your dark past, your inadequacies and scars.
This is his will for us that as we become like him we also express his nature of love to everyone around us.
"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him"IJohn4:14
Maybe you were raised in an abusive home and your thirst for love has made you end up with the wrong kind of persons. Desperately you have sought for something, anything to fill the void in your soul.
Maybe you have tried relationships and you have been brutally hurt, maybe you are confused as to how to let go of the past and move on; maybe you genuinely want to love but as always you cant seem to.
Lets go back to the greatest lovestory in history, shall we? That in a land far far away , a prince came back for his bethrothed bride who was oblivious of his existence. Let's go back to the hill where Love screamed "Mercy" when justice announced "Guilty of sin"
Friend,love beckons on your heart,your soul or entire being.
You are about to experience a romance of a lifetime.
Why not let him in?
Say to him
"Father, i thank you for your amazing love for me. I accept that I sinned against you and I am sorry. Please have mercy on me. I accept you as my Lord and Savior. Please fill my heart with your love. I delcare that i am a child of God!"
I rejoice with you if you said this prayer, you have begun THE love walk!
Remember,
You are loved recklessly, furiously, eternally!
GO ACHIEVE
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