Love revelation… updated

gomezhome ♦ 20/05/2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Many people know that love for the Greeks had at least 4 meanings. These are:

Eros – romantic or sexual love. But the Greeks didn’t always think of it as being positive, as we do today, as it was viewed as fiery and involved a loss of control. Yet we hope to “fall madly in love”.

Philia – brotherly love or friendship. To the Greeks it spoke of loyalty or comradeship.

Storge – especially of parents and children. This is a natural empathy, maybe also the feeling for ones country or favourite sports team.

Agape – the highest form of love, God’s love for us. This is selfless love – we can do nothing to earn this, sometimes known as “gift love”. It is unconditional love.

If you want to read more have a look at: More on Greek words for love.

Interesting to reflect that we most often use the heart as a symbol of love – which we connect to our source of emotions and connection.

But to my revelation about love. How many times have we read “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”? We know that this is true, but why? We can say that God is love so that makes it true. Yes. But I got to thinking when we die what will remain for us? Faith? No, we will not need faith anymore as it is the “confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see”. We will have certainty then.

Hope? No, we will not have to hope anymore. Again, we will have certainty.

Love? Yes, yes, yes! Love will remain. No prizes for knowing that the love talked about in “But the greatest of these is love” is agape love.