If You Want A Successful Marriage and One that Lasts You Will Need to Know What Real Biblical Love Is: What many call love today is nothing more than lust and infatuation: We have free material if you are dating or a young person and want to know the difference between love and infatuation.
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Discerning Genuine Love.
Lust is using someone as an instrument for your satisfaction. So many people get into a relationship thinking the other person’s job is to satisfy them. The purpose of a relationship is not simply to satisfy you but to sharpen you! You Will Need to Know There Are Three Words For Love. Each Has a Different Meaning.
#1 – Eros Love
This is need love. It is based on physical attraction and fulfillment. This love is necessary for marriage to succeed; however, marriage cannot be sustained by eros alone. (Proverbs 5:15-19)
Proverbs 5:15-19 (NKJV) “Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. As a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love.”
#2 – Phileo Love
This is friendship love. The Bible uses the word “companionship” several times to describe a marriage relationship. Phileo love means reciprocal sharing of time, activities, the home, hobbies, games, and other objects of common fellowship. (Romans 12:9-13)
#3 – Agape Love
This is a giving love. This can be unilateral because one loves even when the other doesn’t respond as expected. It is self-giving in meeting the real needs of the other to help the person to become a better, more mature individual. Agape love takes the initiative and energizes the other two kinds of love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 (NLT) “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.”
Agape Love + Phileo Love + Eros Love = Godly marriage that will last!