The word love is just one4:26:15title of those
words that has somehow lost its meaning over the years. We can love everything all at the same time but with different kinds of love. We’ve Hallmarked the word love to be flowery and well girly. Perhaps it’s time to take back the word love.

Some languages have multiple words for love that carry different nuances of meaning. The Greek language for instance has four different words ranging from erotic love to a way of life that is not lived by emotion for devotion. It’s the latter word that we need to spend a little more time with, especially in our day and age. The word in Greek is agape, pronounced a-gop-ay. It’s a love that rests not in the heart but in the gut.

This agape love isn’t some sissified, frilly kind of love. It’s a love that sits in your core and radiates outward. It’s a love that changes your character. It’s a love that causes you to give up a little peace and security for the sake of someone else. This is the love the bible speaks of throughout. The majority of references to love in the bible are this word, agape. This is the love that God has for you. He loves you to the point that nothing can come between you. This love causes him to pursue you even, especially when you don’t want to be followed. Today know that God loves you. He loves you in the core of who he is, and all that he does is to demonstrate his love for you.