Where the Word meets real life.

You cannot do it perfectly. But you are not alone in the attempt. God never gave you a commandment without also giving you help to carry it out. The Holy Spirit is that help. And learning to depend on Him is how imperfect people give the most extraordinary love the world has ever seen. We have covered a lot of ground this week. Four types of love. Match them to the right relationship. The giving versus receiving distinction. The commandment to Agape love unconditionally. And

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