Because Agape love was never designed to be easy. It was designed to be unconditional. And unconditional love, by definition, cannot have a condition that says I will only do this when it feels good. The commandment is the commandment regardless of how the other person is behaving. We have spent this week building a framework. Four types of love. Match them to the right relationship. Understand that giving love can cost you something while receiving real love should not hurt

Because they are giving you what the relationship was designed to carry. And you may be expecting something the relationship was never built to hold. When you match the right type of love to the right relationship, the confusion and disappointment start to make a whole lot more sense. We have been building something this week. We looked at the difference between giving and receiving love and why one can hurt while the other should not. We looked at the four Greek types of lov

Check whether it is based on what you feel or what you do. The highest form of love in Scripture is less about emotion and more about demonstrable action. And the reason so many of us are confused about love is that English only gives us one word for something the Bible describes with at least four. Yesterday we talked about the difference between giving love and receiving it. Today I want to pull back even further and look at the foundational question. What is love actually