After what started of as a terrible week/day this is what God brought to my attention. I pray it touches your heart like it did mine.
LOVE.
"A word that comes and goes, but few people really know what it means to really love somebody" according to the gospel singer Kirk Franklin.
In our English language the word love can mean so many things from deep affection to sexual attraction. I personally like the four ways the ancient Greeks defined love which have been most commonly interpreted love in our Bible.
The last in this list is agape in older Bible versions translated as charity. I always wondered why it was interepreted this way until I studied this word and realised it meant "a giving love without expectation of anything in return". It so sums up God and his love for me. He died for me and although he wants me to love him back he does not force me to.
A lesson learnt.
Agape 
LOVE.
"A word that comes and goes, but few people really know what it means to really love somebody" according to the gospel singer Kirk Franklin.
In our English language the word love can mean so many things from deep affection to sexual attraction. I personally like the four ways the ancient Greeks defined love which have been most commonly interpreted love in our Bible.
- 1. Storge or familial love (philastorgeous - kindly affectioned)
- 2. Philia;the love between friends, (philadelphia, philanthropy)
- 3. Eros, sexual love (erotic)
- 4. Agape, or spiritual, unselfish love
The last in this list is agape in older Bible versions translated as charity. I always wondered why it was interepreted this way until I studied this word and realised it meant "a giving love without expectation of anything in return". It so sums up God and his love for me. He died for me and although he wants me to love him back he does not force me to.
A lesson learnt.
Agape
