Characteristics I want: to demonstrate unconditional love to my children and to use my days to develop a heart of wisdom (love). Not just love, but agape love.
1. Agape love indicates the nature of the love of God toward His beloved Son (John 17:26), toward the human race generally (John 3:16; Rom 5:8) and toward those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:21).
2. Agape love conveys God’s will to His children about their attitude toward one another. Love for one another was a proof to the world of true discipleship (John 13:34-35).
3. Agape love also expresses the essential nature of God (1 John 4:8). Love can be known only from the actions it prompts, as seen in God’s love in the gift of His son (1 John 4:9—10). Love found its perfect expression in the Lord Jesus. Christian love is the fruit of the Spirit of Jesus in the believer (Gal 5:22).
4. Love is like oil to the wheels of obedience. It enables me to run the way of God’s commandments (Ps 119:32). Without such love, we are as nothing (1 Cor 13:3). Such Spirit-inspired love never fails (1 Cor 13:8) but always flourishes.
I am going back to college to study Biblical Greek, so it is God’s plan for me to learn Greek and practice Agape!