Before Eros, Agape was!

If it’s your first time to encounter the words that are mentioned in the title, they are simply two kinds of love! Eros is termed as romantic-sexual love. Agape is the convenant Love of God for humans, for us, for you!

Before Eros came to be, Agape was! God created light, and all other things having you in mind! If He created you first and the rest of things later, it only could have meant that you were created for those other things. But since it’s the viceversa, it only means, those things were put in place, for you.

The Garden was to feed Adam, as Adam was made for God! The things created were to minister to man, so that man could minister to God! Why? He alone was made in God’s likeness, and He alone has a soul in Him! Man was last to be created, and thus, like the infinity sign, he is placed last on the cycle meaning the next thing after Him is God!

Man couldn’t minister to God, in the absence of Love (Agape). He dwelt with God first, discovered his purpose at the time…(which was naming the animals) and carried it out!

After that, God made Him a wife, as a companion! Child, notice that the partner came after Adam had grown a great relationship with God & had discovered His purpose in life!

Each precedes the other! Agape first, which causes God to reveal the reason why He created you, and then He’ll send you a helper! After the helper arrived, that’s when Eros came to exist, which according to God’s agenda ought to flow from Agape, the love of the soul!

Agape is also termed as the love of the soul! Eros is the love of the body! These, to me sum it up as I’ll elaborate! Wikipedia states that Eros is ‘passionate love!’ But you realise God’s very love is as well passionate! It’s Universal.

Agape can be Eros, but Eros can’t be Agape. It’s like stating Mango is fruit, but fruit can’t be mango, because that’ll exclude the rest of fruits in the world! Now fruit is Agape. In Agape, you’ll find all these other loves…[Storge (love of family, parents/siblings) And Philia (love between friends)]

Agape is alive! When you’ve been born of it, it’ll differentiate and materialize to serve the matter at hand at any given occasion. That means if you need to forgive that child or parent, it’ll become exactly that. If you need to forgive that friend, it’ll be that.

Agape as well will lead you to the place of Eros! It is the Love of the Soul, right? If you love your soul you’ll care about its clothing—the body! No wonder Jesus states that we love our neighbors as we love ourselves! A common love has come up nowadays, Self-love.

Self-love, I believe ought to be deeper than what’s seen on top! Many people struggle with loving themselves! However, what’s self-love if you don’t love your soul & remember Agape is described as the love of the soul!

God’s love is unto your soul because you are eternal! You’ll live forever! He ensured, by Jesus that you’d be redeemed from damnation. That’s what Agape does! In the bible, especially in 1 Corinthians 13, and in the books by John, everywhere you see love, the writers meant Agape!

Think of it! How do men fall in love? How do women fall in love?

Do they love the souls of the people they decide to marry, or they only loved the lust part. When they realize you can’t serve it the way they want it, they start cheating…and divorcing!

If you let God, you won’t have to go through the try & error sagas. He’ll discover the right one for you! In fact He’s already made the right one for you!

God enlightened me! He told Me to love my wife (to be) this way. He asked me to ask myself, ‘Do I love her So much that I’ll be able to see her in eternity?’ If you’ve never cared to ask this question then ask it now.

You see what’s happening here? I’m caring so much for her soul & not just her beauty which I see on the body. When I meet her, I’ll ask myself, what I could do to make her spiritual journey better! I’ll pray for her & do my best to teach Her God’s word, so that her relationship with God goes through the roof when she dives deeper into Agape!

This Agape then will help her to discover her purpose and then of course… Eros for her husband (to be) will be formulated from the Agape, and God will teach her to react to her husband’s love the way she reacts to the love that’s showered her from God!

Agape is so beautiful. When you set God’s love above anything else, when you focus on it, God brings all you ever need! He opens your eyes to your purpose in life! He also brings your life partner to you for If He loves your soul that much, He’ll care about the idea that you as well need a life companion!

Divorces are many because men and women have left God out…and have decided to do the hunting themselves. In the end they find people who know only sex and have no idea what Agape is!

Since God made you, which better person would you have get you a spouse? Yourself? Or your maker? We all need to allow the fact that we need God in our lives, just like parents are gods to a baby as it grows, you too need someone who made your soul!

A pot can’t tell its maker what shape it wants. The shape resides in the Potter’s mind. You can’t tell God what spouse you want, He or she is in His mind already. So you have to trust that God has the best for you!

Today’s blog is about showing you the pattern child. First; Agape which consists of you falling in love with your maker, two; Him unveiling your purpose in life, three; letting Him do the work of finding you the life companion as you continue to love Him!

When He brings your life partner, don’t love him or her by Eros, but by Agape; Love his or her soul so much until you’re so sure it’ll live on forever, in perfect condition, in Heaven… Because that’s what He considers to be His kind of love, and that’s how He loved you, otherwise, He’d never have bothered to send Christ to die for your soul!

For if you love yourself, and He told you to love your spouse as you love yourself, I am sure that one way any person on earth loves them selves, is to ensure that they live on forever. . . not just anywhere but in a good place far from damnation….

For forever is such a long time to be anywhere else.