One searches for that love that will not reject, criticize, humiliate, or shows resentment. Yet scarcely does one find such a love. Thus, it is with a great compromise that we stay in a relationship called love. Although it could be a family member, spouse, or friend, some offense does appear. As a result, we may go on for some time disgruntled until that sticky situation is, resolved, by an apology which one may choose to accept or not. Then there may be pended hurt that is swept “under the rug.”
Agape in love by Encyclopedia Britannica is the highest form of love. It is the love shown by our Heavenly Father to us humans. It is this Agape love that caused Jesus to die for us without a condition clause or repaying. Agape love is so unselfish that some cannot understand how such love exists.
The Bible puts it this way
“ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
So that, whosoever is not limited to some person who appears good. Neither is it limited to a set class of society, but agape love extends to all. One may think they are messed up there is no way love can find them. However, the master of love has no specials or favorites but extends deliverance and healing to those who ask.
Remember when Jesus was on the cross and the murderer beside him and said, Jesus, remember me, or Saul the persecutor of the Saint?
Jesus converted him and changed his name to Paul, all by his love. We cannot be so ready to condemn the person who has been unkind to us. What about that love. If we say we know God and have no love, then we are not of God. We’re a liar, for “God is love” (1 John 4:8). The Holy Ghost shed abroad in our hearts allows us to love unconditionally, enabling us to love as God loves. Romans 5:5 say God’s love is shed abroad in our hearts. God instructs us to love our brothers to love one another. Yet many hate their brothers and carry envy and covetousness in their hearts. But this will only generate bitterness, and wars on our part, because we give us heartache. It lets us worry about what somebody may be thinking about us when they are not even thinking anything evil about us. But if we have love in our hearts, then we will not believe that our brother or a sister has something against us or have a wrong thought against us, but we will be thinking good thoughts, as God is thinking good thoughts towards us.
God does not look at us and see the sins that we have committed, but he looks at the blood he shed on Calvary. And if we can look beyond the person, beyond what is happening, see God’s creation. There is somebody who requires love. Someone who needs compassion is a person to listen to them—lending a caring heart and nonjudgmental mind to that person and helping someone go through that transformation because of losing a loved one or a difficult situation. They need somebody to love them in this situation, love them through the problem. Do not be the one to case them down. We are commissioned by God, that if he is in our hearts, then we also show love. We have to show up as the person who God wants us to be. If we are representing God, we are reflecting God’s attributes. God’s love is unconditional, and God’s love has no favorites. It is just pure, and it comes with nothing attached to it because he is pure love.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.”
James 1:17
I found the love of God as the grace I need in every situation. It does not matter how often I have messed up; God’s grace finds me. You may feel no one cares or understands at that place, but the Lord said to cast all your cares on him, for he cares for you.
It is the words of God that shed light in my life every time there is a situation that challenges our confidence.