Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:11 We have this construction: Beloved (agapetos), love (agapao) one another. It means, agaped ones, agape each other. I think the passive idea of letting us love one another is appropriate, although not directly in the Greek text. Being that we are the community of the ones whose identity is that of being persistently loved, we respond in kind in our community with each other. We are the agaped ones together, in community, and we let ourselves be that which we truly are with one another. It only makes sense that as beloved people, we love one another. In an elite music school such as the Juilliard School of Music, in the company of virtuoso musicians, the members play music with one another. Im sure there is some organizational process to facilitate that, but that is who they are and what they love to do. It would be strange to think that you would be a world-class musician at a school for world-class musicians and not play music together. The organization and intent is not to force unwilling participants to reluctantly play together, it is to enable the members to do what they love and are gifted to do together. In the same way, as a deeply beloved person in the company of deeply beloved people, it would be strange to think that there would be no recognition of the belovedness which bears upon each other, and to respond from ones own belovedness with love.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:07:18 +0000
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