Unconditional Love

C.S. Lewis describes God's love in these terms:

"Divine Gift Love is wholly disinterested and desires what is simply best for the beloved."
Not uninterested, but disinterested. That is, with no desire for personal gain or benefit. The whole object of agape is the welfare of the one who receives love. This is why we can call it unconditional love. And this is how God loves us. There is nothing that we need to do to prove ourselves worthy of His love. We only need to accept it. He loves us, not because of what we are, but in spite of what we are! A simple way to express this is to say, 'I love you anyway.'

While agape is a matter of choice and decision on our part, we can also ask God to help us so that we can fulfil the choice that we make and truly love as we should. Barry Chant, the founder of Tabor College, said, "our decision and commitment must be to exercise agape at all times. Our prayer must be for the Holy Spirit to help us to do it!" In the ultimate example of agape - the Lord Jesus Christ's death on the cross - there was a totally commitment. Agape is always like that. It must have all of us, or nothing. There is simply no middle ground!

Dear Father God, may your love increase daily and overflow through me to others, and may the Holy Spirit help me exercise agape all the time. In Jesus' Name I pray, amen.