Over the last few months, I've been sharing how God saved our marriage twenty years ago by His supernatural Love. I made the statement that had we not found God's Way of Agape, we would not be together today. I really mean it! God's Love not only salvaged and restored our marriage, it has turned it around to where it is now a hundred times better, sweeter and more passionate than it ever was, even when we were first married.
Now, that's quite a statement when you realize how long we have been married years this past month! Talk about hope for marriages, hope for relationships and hope for families; God's Love is the answer! Agape is the answer. Agape is the Greek word for God's Love. How is Agape Love any different from natural, human love? And, why on earth is this Agape Love so important? Well, the Bible tells us that Agape is a Person.
He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is Love Agape. This is what makes Christianity so totally different from all the other religions in the world. Christianity is the only religion where God Himself who is Love comes to dwell within each of our hearts. There's a precious story that exemplifies this: Art Katz, a brilliant Jewish philosopher, was a teacher at the University of California at Berkeley.
After years of seeking truth, he decided to travel around the world in search of the real God. As he traveled, he took time to painstakingly explore all the religions that he encountered. One day, while riding a train to Frankfurt, Germany, Art happened to sit next to a young Christian girl who had only a few days previously become a believer. They began to talk about God. A few minutes into the conversation, the erudite Art sarcastically turned to the girl and asked, "What makes you think your Jesus is any different from all the other religions of the world?
He is Love and He lives in my heart. Well, this was not at all the response that Art had expected. In fact, it caught him totally off guard. He never saw that sweet girl again, but for months he could not get her simple answer out of his head. Over and over those words echoed in his mind, "Because Jesus is God and He lives in my heart. Finally, at the end of his trip, Art found himself in Jerusalem, Israel, his homeland. He befriended a man there that secretly was a Messianic Jew a Jew who has found Jesus to be the true Messiah.
