According to Nancy Missler in her book "The Way of Agape", Agape is God’s Love. It’s a love that is supernatural and totally different from human love. Nancy goes on to say that she had no idea that Agape was God Himself working through her and could only do so if she presented God with “a cleansed and unclogged vessel to use.”
Next Nancy says that to agapao something means to “totally give ourselves over to something; to be totally consumed with it; totally committed to it.” What we choose to agapao is up to us. We can choose what to give ourselves over to; something that will allow us to do God’s work or something that can become obsessive. All one has to do to witness what so many agapao is to turn on his or her television. Many are obsessed with looking younger, losing weight, having a bigger house, a better car, more money and so on and so forth.
Earlier I wrote about a video produced by Dennis Prager with his Prager University; “The One Thought You Should Never Have.”
Mr. Prager states that there is only one Commandment that prohibits a thought, and it is this: "Do not covet." When one covets is that the same as to agapao what belongs to someone else? Coveting often leads to the proceeding four commandments and can lead to murders, thief, lies, and/or committing adultery.
Deuteronomy 5:21, “Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet (H183) thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.”
H183 - A primitive root; to wish for: - covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after).
While I've enjoyed "The Way of Agape:, I’m sorry to say that it struck me as too much "Kumbaya” and too little about having a fear of the Lord.
2 Timothy 4:3, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;” Recently my BAC friends and I were discussing the fact that many are treating God in a casual way; almost as a genie in a bottle. People argue that we serve of God of love so He would not possibly send people to hell. While it is true that we serve a loving God, we also serve a righteous God.
The justice of our righteous God often results in judgment. Ultimately, all will be judged; some at the Bema Seat judgment and some of the White throne judgment. Philippians 2:10, "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;"
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