IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE

Agape Love (google)

     I don't know if you have an earthly father, if he was good or bad, but you gotta know, all of creation is BECAUSE of Agape Love. That's Father's love, and it is active...not emotional. It is spiritual.
     Over the Summer, I got to work for DaySpring Behavioral Health Services. I learned so much about Daddy God. It was incredible, to feel little Lucas move inside me. I loved my 6th month because he was so active and I was passed the nausea, not quite a whale, yet. People would touch my belly and say, "Lucas, it's your Aunt 'Sally.' Wake up!" He would wake up, kick, and we were gleeful with proof of the miracle of Love inside me, moving.
     Imagine God, in darkness, because that's trust, Love moves inside the expanse of eternity, like a baby in the bag of waters, and God/Love, is moved to speak. Isn't that beautiful? He heard His voice, and whatever He spoke, was. Wow! I'm in awe of Him. Not being a man, it's hard to understand this, wrap my mind around this, but Father Love is Blessing Love. It means, I will take care of all of your needs, and I will delight to see what you CAN desire outside of my provision. The majority of us have never experienced this kind of love, so we can't comprehend or fathom that a Holy God would love us that much.
     During the Summer, I worked out that we are Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical. There is healing for the physical and the emotional, but no one wants to touch the spiritual healing....inept, for sure. Then, I asked the question that God had been leading me too: What is Spiritual God, if Christian and sinner is to receive healing regardless of religious belief ? He answered, "First of all, spiritual is not religious, because people have spirit even though they not believe. I would never create a being without spirit. Spirit is the Breath of Life." I thought on that a few days, had a couple of dreams, and determined that the Breath of Life is sex. That made perfect sense, to me, because the man got The Breath of Life, but the woman did not. She was taken out of man. This is why many cultures still believe the woman can't go to Heaven. Anyway, look at the actual act, and you will see how it works. The man can't FEEL emotional until after climax, and the climax is in the penis. The woman's orgasm is a full body orgasm...the Breath of Life. Nice exchange, huh? Alas, I wasn't quite there.

Intimacy (google)

     In the next week, Jimmy Evans was on the Joni Table Talk show, and said, paraphrasing here, "The Breath of Life is Love. God never intended for us to be able to relate to each other without Him, so He put Himself in image." I don't know about you, but I was doing cartwheels.....in my heart :)  How cool is that? We can't even relate to each other, in Love, without Him.
      Ok, moving on, we have Eros (greek god, not in the Bible), passionate/romantic love. If there were a better word for this love, like INTIMACY, which is into me see, this would perfectly describe Jesus. He is the Physical evidence of God's passionate love for us, and His sacrifice made it possible for INTIMACY with God. I really don't like Eros. but, you do get the idea.
     I know I didn't spend much time on Physical Love, but there's a reason for that, because Emotional love has two kinds of Love, and I think it will really help some people clear up some issues of the heart. Back in 2005, I learned that the IMAGE that God made man in is "Male, Female,Seed." Which let me know that Male is God the Father, Female is Mama God, and Seed is Jesus. His trademark is literally on everything He created....down to the worm. So, Mama God is the Holy Spirit, and we are currently in Mama God dispensation. I've said it before, but let me recap, when the enemy tempted Eve, literally what he did was have her FEEL the fruit, then cause her to REASON that it is NATURAL food instead of SPIRITUAL fruit. That showed me that in order for the enemy to gain access to us, we first have to give him an ear, engage him, allow him to make us feel, and convince us that with all the symptoms, we have a right reason that blah, blah, blah is true. In order to fight him, we have to recognize the lie, ask God how we came into agreement with him, repent, ask God to reveal TRUTH by laying down feelings and reason.....bam! TRUTH becomes a SWORD, one slash, and you are free.

Storge Love (google)

     I have always struggled with Phileo love, determining that since it is never unconditional, it always fails, it rejects, it maims, it rarely does more good than harm, and, and, it operates on reciprocity. I hate that! However, God turned the light on today, and I discovered an attic full of treasure boxes to explore. Who cares about the spiderwebs, cobwebs, etc. I'm diving in.
     The first relationship an infant ever has is Storge Love/Mama Love. A system is set up like this: Baby cries (6 different cries), Mama responds (appropriately and timely), need is satiated, and then comes trust (came from Relias Learning). Unfortunately, if the mother never understands the different cries and neglects the child, the infant learns to stop crying....horrific!!! Many of us grew up with "getting by" mothering. That means, we have mothers who were children when they had children, and they never got the complete 100% pouring into kinda love that required nothing in return. Then, because of that deficit, we subconsciously, are always on the prowl for THAT love in phileo love, or eros/intimate love.

Phileo Love (google)

      So, imagine that we all got Mama love, where our Mama's couldn't wait to have us, sending into our making/disposition the attitude of I want you. Then, when we were born, we were met with rejoicing and parties, and Mama falling in love with our sweet little being, nursing us, handling us so gently, comforting us when we were fussy. Oh, and then, when we were in Elementary, she exclaimed, "Oh honey, look at that pretty picture! Did you make that for me? I'm so proud of you!" Our little hearts know that we know, that we are wanted and adored. So then, when we make friends, we are naturally drawn to friends (phileo) who know the same thing. That friendship grows and develops with each member giving, sharing, and receiving from a place in the heart that is secure...I am wanted. Friendship is never convoluted or strained. It just is...strong, and lasting.
      Now imagine, that Mama was raped at 16, had the baby because her parents "made her." They spend more time with the grandchild/child than the mother. The mother is still in school. She wants to be a teenager and not a mother. That child rarely even gets a glance from her teenage mother, much less a hold. The child knows he/she can get anything from Nana and Papa, but the gaping hole in the heart can't be touched by them. The child branches out to find friends....just like him/her. They pull and push on each other, wanting this, grabbing that, needing this, taking that. They would walk away, but the fear of being alone and unloved eats them for dinner, so they hook on, and suck each other dry.
      I said all of that to say this, you can not begin to be a brother lover until you get love from your Mother (Mama God). Don't be sad if your family relations are strained. Ask Mama God (Holy Spirit) to identify the holes, bring you to repentance, reveal TRUTH, get free, and then you will find that Agape Love accompanies Storge Love so that you can have Intimacy (Jesus Love) with every person God brings into your life. Jesus is all about revealing God is LOVE!