May I not choose the darkness of pettiness, but instead walk in the light of love.
I once thought I knew the shape of love, but this past season has broken, tested, and expanded me. In the very places I wished most to avoid, agape love became my teacher. Each challenge tempted me to respond in pride, to repay hurt with hurt-but that is not love. That is not the character of Christ.
In the breaking, the Creator began piecing together truths I had long been seeking, revealing mysteries beyond explanation yet undeniably marked by His agape love. Scriptures I’ve known since childhood now carry new depth, and my love for God has grown beyond what I could have imagined.
This stretching and unlearning has been purposeful: it is shaping me to look more like Christ. I am learning to embody agape love more fully, to discern with greater clarity, and to hear the voice of Love itself because God is Love. Every thought I have I test against Love—if it aligns with what is selfless, truthful, gracious, and without limit, I know it is from the Creator and not my flesh.
Because love is not enabling. Love speaks truth, even when it stings. Love calls us higher. Love strips away illusions until only what is eternal remains.
It is the sharpening of iron with iron-where sparks may fly, yet growth is forged.
Love is patient.
Love chooses humility over pride.
Love forgives when the flesh wants to win.
Love is not easily angered and keeps no record of wrongs.
Love forgives.
Love preserves.
This is the calling upon our lives: To embody agape love-because we were created in the image of Love itself.
-Finn
