5/11/2020
2 Peter 1:7 “Add to your
brotherliness…love.”
There are four types of Christian love:
Philia – brotherly love (friend), Storge – familial love (family), Eros –
romantic love, and Agape – God’s love, which is love in its highest form. We,
as humans, are designed to experience all of these types of love. Sadly,
however, for many people this is not always the case. We live in a sinful and fallen
world where bonds are broken far too easily, usually because of pride or
selfishness. This was never God’s plan, but His creation entered into sin and
severed connection with The Creator. Jesus became the bridge between God and
people by His sacrifice.
In the past few months, there have been
many examples of the first three kinds of love among all nations, for our
common trauma has brought us together in ways that heretofore were lacking. During
this pandemic, there has been a love revival.
Many people that I have spoken to are wondering
where that fourth type of love currently is, for many feel God has turned His
back on us. If He had, all the other forms would be lacking as well, for He
alone is the Author of Love. I have been looking for the lessons He is trying
to teach us all during this difficult time, and I truly feel that loving each
other out loud is the most important
one of all. God is there in every act of love done for another. We as believers
have an even deeper call to show others love. So I ask myself, “How am I doing
loving others out loud? Am I loving
as Jesus did? Am I sharing with others how much God loves them?”
Chambers asks, “Am I prepared to be so
identified with the Lord Jesus that His life and His sweetness are being poured
out all the time?”
1 John 4:19 “We love because He first loved
us.”
When Love Broke Thru - TobyMac
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