Meditation on God's Love

What does it mean by loving someone?
Is there such a thing as a loving relationship?

In a Christian sense, the love that we strive for is Agape Love, otherwise known as unconditional love. We love our brothers and sisters "unconditionally" although that statement does come with some baggage because more often than not we say those words to be "correct" because anything else would not be "acceptable" and blasphemous.

How can we love someone or a group of people unconditionally because they happen to believe in the same God, even though we are not in any way blood-related? I hate to use the word, "love" because by uttering it so often in many different situations in a church or para-church setting somehow "cheapens" it. It somehow makes it less genuine. If someone says that he likes someone, craves some food, delights and congratulate someone getting wedded to someone else, you don't feel that strong obsessive and delusional aspect about that person's feeling.

However, as soon as you hear someone mention about someone's love for another you feel the obsession and infatuation with that person. And then your close friends or parents or siblings fret out loud that he or she is "drowned" in love (probably delusional).

So, how is God's love different from us? Is his love obsessive or temporal or conditional? Can we actually understand God's love when our understanding of love is vastly different from God's? Since our understanding of love is different, we don't actually "love" him if we were to love him like we love our parents, siblings, wives, husbands, so on. God will "feel" our love only when we love the way he wants us to love him.

Although God loves everyone equally, we know that his love for his only begotten son and his complete obedience (to his death) was what really pleased God and made God feel loved and glorified. Therefore, we understand that our love for God should be obedience to the teachings of his words in the Bible and Holy Spirit.

In the time of the Old Testament, it was the ministry of the Father through the messengers, aka the prophets. In the time of the New Testament, it was the ministry of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the present time, it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit. If we truly strive to have a loving relationship with God, we should strive for obedience more than anything else because that's how God wants us to love him and how he wants to be glorified.

God Bless!