Agape kind of love

Life Issues with FGK

This week we are going to delve deeper into the fibre that make up the fabric called the Agape kind of love, which is the kind of love responsible for most of the bonds that exist amongst all relationships that we have under the sun.

The assumption amongst humanity is that love should be abundantly available in every breathing soul that co-exist on this planet but alas, many have shown extreme lack of it.

Every human being is burdened by this natural obligation to love, that is why even those that cannot love try their best to fake it. Deeds are the barometer with which we interpret the heart of a person but recently we have come across issues in society that proved otherwise. It seems as if as a species we are struggling to love and yet love is within all of us, embedded by our creator within our anatomy.

The term ‘Agape’ is defining the God kind of love towards humans and it is the same love demonstrated by God when He sent His son Jesus Christ to the world.

This agape love is a divine love that comes from God in its perfect form. It is unconditional, sacrificial, selfless, forgiving and its everything pure about love.

The creator made sure that he gives each of us a seed of it to enable us to live with our fellow human beings who are very highly sensitive to this force. Love can be felt, when it’s there. You can be able to tell the intent of a person when they present an act of the ‘so called love’ before you.

The genuineness of it carries a weight and it announces itself to the beneficiary of it as authentic or fake.

When we were in primary school, some years ago. One of our teachers taught us about keeping ourselves safe from abuse and he told us a short story about child molesters. He said there was a certain group of ladies that would lure kids from their parents just to molest them.

These ladies would bring sweets and chocolates to the kids who would interpret the act as love and yet they were falling for a snare and soon would become prey.

The ladies were so innocent looking because they were barren.

So everyone who would see them would not even suspect them of any evil doing because they would act as victims of bareness who are earnestly seeking consolation in playing with the little kids. It’s said that the ladies would molest the boys sexually almost every day for a couple of months and the day they were caught it was when one of the young boys’ parent had discovered some cut on their child’s organ and the investigations started.

What was discovered upon interrogation of these ladies was shocking. They said they would first create relationships with the parents’ victims in order to earn their trust first and then begin to offer sweets, chocolates plus other goodies to the kids to entice them.

This story; in-short, is a very good example of how dangerous it is to deduce love from actions without discerning the inner intent of the person. God meant for people to love each other but what we are witnessing is the opposite.

As parents when we are blessed with children, we welcome them with real love and passion.

We will be willing to risk it all for the new arrival whom we look up to as a curse breaker, a new life changer and a future leader.

But the world is not going to be kind to our children at all. A child’s destiny can be wiped away in one day through one act of an individual without love.

Our prisons are full of people who have committed various offenses and if we are to scrutinise each one of the offense we realise that the root cause why the perpetrator committed such an offense is because they lacked love towards their victim. A recent visit to a local hospital which I will not name left me baffled because of a nightmare I saw.

There was a young boy who had third degree cuts, head injuries and butt wounds which were inflicted by their parent. That sight would leave you wondering and soaking in tears and asking God why there are such people amongst us; heartless and evil.

The lack of love has caused our society to be this loathsome and unwelcoming. What ought to be done should be the question you and I should ponder about in order to help alleviate society from hate towards one another.

In conclusion, the Bible in the book of 1 Corinthians 13:3 says, ‘If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.”

The scripture is telling us that acts or deeds of giving and sacrifice can be done even without love. It also elaborates that its possible for one to give themselves to hardship only to boast but not out of love. It’s not everyone who presents an act or deed of love who has love inside them.

The last thing that the bible says in that scripture is the word ‘gain’ which means if you love genuinely you gain somehow. Giving love does not only benefit the recipient but it also benefits the one who gives it.

Have you ever done something good and you feel happy?

Have you ever made someone cry with joy and you feel overwhelmed with this good feeling that you wouldn’t want to go away? That shows you how much we all need to love and be loved genuinely. It benefits the one loved and the one who has loved.

We all thrive in environments which are love saturated and we struggle when hate contaminates our atmospheres. Make a choice to be an emitter of genuine love!