Agape Love

I have heard many sermons about agape love.  It is the love that surpasses the brotherly/affectionate love although that love is very important.  Agape love is selfless, sacrificial love and it is the highest form of love spoken about in the Bible.

This kind of love sees a person's weaknesses and their strengths but loves them all the same.  It does not sum a person up.  It does not hold mistakes to a person.  This love is deep.  It is freeing even in the midst of hardship and disagreement.  Agape love says, "Ah, we had a falling out, but because I love him or her, this too shall pass."  And even if the other person resists, agape love holds onto them in the heart.

I desire this agape love every single day.  I do not always succeed.  But I refuse to give up asking the Lord to help me.  It is His will that I love like His Son, Jesus.

Lord Jesus, will you please teach us how to agape love someone over and over again?  Until the day we come home to Heaven..please teach us that the depths of true love knows zero bounds.  Amen.