When he tells you he loves you.

Writing from a male perspective this has no reference to homosexual love, but a love between a man and a woman that transcends all normal perspectives of convention and prudence. Agape love has been called the greatest love there is. It is the love between husband and wife and the Creator and mankind. If we are called to love in this way but never really know in our hearts what this love means to our hearts, we can be easily deceived (the way the deceiver lies to us) into thinking that we must never sacrifice our hearts for something greater than ourselves. God does not call us to love in the way we feel love, He calls us to die.

Think of a time when someone was genuinely concerned for your welfare. It may be a stranger or probably someone very close to you. You probably should of felt loved, but the love that a man has for his wife should not come with the demand that you are here to serve me. I have felt this kind of love throughout my life, where the person receiving my adoration was so much focused on "how much love I had to give them" that it totally destroyed my spirit, because I felt a lack of true authentic agape, that I was feared into doing thing that I would never do in my right mind.

We believe that philio love rules the universe, and this is why Christ came to set us free from the selfish demands that relationship love requires of us.

There is nothing wrong with liking people, in fact it is necessary for a relationship to work, but the cost at which we demand that we not die to self, is a cost that we will reap for all of eternity. If you are honest with friends about the most intimate details of your life, you should be willing to die to that part of you that holds you in bondage to fear and disillusionment. That is your flesh. Christ greatest achievement on dying on the cross was not that you would live with him in eternity, but was that he calls you through his spirit to be born again, death to the flesh, daily.

It is a cost almost too high for you not to take, and it is impossible for you to do without dying to your pride. It cost Christ his life, God forbid that you would not take his free gift of eternal life and expend it on your own cravings, for if you do this you will die, but in humble adoration and worship claim this verse, "I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)

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