Sundaymail Editor
Life Issues
with FGK
THE curtain comes down on the month of love today.
February is often known for being a month dedicated to and all about love.
However, the word love is broad. It is not only limited to “lovebirds”. This is the reason why self-love, nurturing relationships with family and friends, including strangers, is encouraged during this month.
Love is an integral part of our lives and is crucial in community development.
Thus, this week we are going to republish excerpts from an article that was first published in the nascent days of this column.
We want to delve 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 among 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, which 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 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 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 is 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.
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 world to be this loathsome and unwelcoming.
What ought to be done should be the question you and I ponder about in order to help alleviate the world 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 is 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.
It benefits the one loved and the one who has loved. We all thrive in environments that are love saturated and we struggle when hate contaminates our atmospheres.
Make a choice to be an emitter of genuine love!
Quote of the week: It is not everyone who presents an act or deed of love who has love inside them.
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Tinaye Agere
Online Reporter