There is Love then there is "Love" then there is "Biblical Love" Wow who knew LOVE had so many types? There is conditional love: "if you love me you will do...." "unless you love me you wouldn't do..." Then here is Unconditional love: it just is; no condiions, no rules, "it just is". Oh then the Biblical Love:
Agape: n. love; active love (the word active meands to PRODUCE) -- Agape`:God is Love -- The agape heart cannot stop being a heart; it is just PRODUCING itself, a heart. It cannot change; it will ALWAYS be a heart.
Agapao: v. to love the word "to" indicates MOVEMENT towards a person, place, or thing --- Agapao: Man is to love one another
The NOUN Love cannot cange what it is, cannot stop what it is, cannot refuse what it is, cannot withhold what it is
The VERB love at anytime it can: begin to give love, it can stop showing love, it can withhold love, it can reject love.
So thank you Beth Kinder, I borrowed that above; from stronghold to STRONGHOLD.
Most of yesteray: Proverbs 31:30: Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the LORD will be grealy praised. NLT
kept coming up for me. Some people see the phrase "fears the Lord" as a type of deep love for the Lord or out of a deep love for the Lord.
So what IS Love for me?
Well, it is a great mutual respect of one another be it a friendship or a couple. gratitude, strenghth, feeling accepted wanting to just do good things and be in company of good people - to just "love on" accept others as God himself has accepted us. It is not to say that because we love we will not get hurt, or suffer loss - but it is "what we choose to do with it - that makes the difference."
I am not by any means finished with week 3 of stronghold to STRONGHOLD; but what I have learned so far is this: There is this great LOVE that God has for us; it does NOT take a rocket scientist to figure out how to get it; we just need to choose to stop standing in our own way and go take from the tree of Love or the Fruit of the Spirit of Love that God has given us.
Don't forget to remember this: Until you forgive you cannot love.
~ Have a great rest of your week ~
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