Love Has No Limits! AGAPE


I was looking at Pinterest and this quote about love caught my attention.  It really touched my heart because we all want to love and be loved.  Problem is, we don't all know what AGAPE LOVE is.  Do you know? 

Life has taught me that love has many different emotional and mental states.  In life we can be loving or not. We all want to hear that four letter word because it makes us feel alive.

Therapeutically in my relationship with Jesus, I learned in 1st John 4:8, "God is love". Love is part of His character and what He does is influenced by love.  In John 15:13, God says, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” 

The question remains, do you see AGAPE LOVE in your life?  Do you show AGAPE LOVE to your friends & family

“Let all that you do be done with love.”
                1st Corinthians 16:14

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  1. UnknownApril 21, 2018 at 11:49 AM

    Agape love does not come naturally to us. Because of our fallen nature, we are incapable of producing such a love. If we are to love as God loves, that love; that agape can only come from its Source. This is the love that “has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” when we became His children (Romans 5:5; Galatians 5:22). “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters” 1 John 3:16. Because of God’s love toward us, we are able to love one another. LOU

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