As soon as I set my mind to do even one aspect of the many traits of Agape love, I fail. I can’t do it. I fail even with my family who I hold the dearest of all. Imagine how short my determination gets with people who don’t share DNA with me.
When I should be patient; I lose it.
My kindness leads to my resentment
Envy, pride and selfishness sneak into my day to day. I only see them after I act. But they are for sure a major part of my life
My temper flares and I promise you I am keeping a list of everything that others have done against me.
I try to “always” protect, trust, hope and persevere, but I fall short of always.
Can you imagine what a testimony we could be if we lived Agape love, but how?
I believe Jesus explained to us how this is to be done in John 14-16.
We can only love with Agape love if we are one with Jesus. Not if we are believers. Not if we go to church on Sunday or even say a prayer every evening before we go to bed. We must be one with Jesus through the spirit.
John 15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Paul also tells us that Agape is one of the fruit of the spirit.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
