The Kind Of Love "That There's Just Too Little Of"

With all of the hatred being daily displayed in our ungodly society, Andy Diestelkamp, one of the writers for the "Think On These Things" publication, has recently written this article regarding the different kinds of worldly "love" that our society embraces, but tends to disregard the agape love that the Bible emphasizes.

Brother Diestelkamp illustrates the worldly type of love by the 1965 song composed by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, sung by Dionne Warwick entitled, "What the world needs now is love sweet love" (see article and video).

Agape love (1 Corinthians 13:1-13) is more needed today in the twenty-first century than even spiritual gifts were in the first century, simply because God-authored agape love is "a more excellent way" (1 Corinthians 12:31) than any short-lived worldly love or temporary spiritual gifts could possibly be, for God's love is eternal in nature.

As Brother Diestelkamp points out in the last two paragraphs of his good article: "believers in God need to make a very intentional effort to define and embrace love as taught and exemplified by God in Scripture as opposed to how it might be variously used by others in popular culture and the media. We need to have a greater appreciation for the nature and depth of divine love which then motivates us to imitate this kind of love in all our relationships with one another and to oppose anything called love that is sinful or otherwise contrary to God.

In this the love of God is demonstrated to us, that God has sent His one and only Son into the world, that through Him we might live. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to pay for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 Jn. 4:9-11). This is the kind of love “that there’s just too little of” (see third stanza lyrics).

---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets