The Love of God

There is more than one kind of love. There are four words, for example, in the Greek language of Jesus’ day, representing four kinds of love. They were: eros, or passionate, physical love; storge, or family love and cherishing; philia, or friendship love; and agape, used only in the New Testament, to refer to God’s love. Agape love is the unconditional love from fullness, which gives itself away. To use an analogy: if you fill a cup to overflowing by pouring water into from a very large pitcher, the point at which the water overflows the limits of the cup, is when it becomes “agape”-like love. That is how it is with God’s love.