Love Motivation

Sometimes we “love” in order to get.

The motivation is selfish—it has an agenda.

There is a different kind of love: one that chooses, prefers, esteems, and gives value and worth to its recipients.

This is “agape” love—God’s kind of love.

God loves us this way, not because he stands to gain something from us, but because he delights in giving value and worth to us.

This is how we should love too.

“My dear friends, if this is how God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other.” (1 John 4.11 MSG)