Pagmamahal ng Panginoon

Pagmamahal ng Panginoon

Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay nakuha sa pangngalan, agape. Ang Diyos ang pinagmulan at kahulugan ng agape-love (Eph. 2:4, 1 John 4:8, 16). According to 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, agape-Ang pag-ibig ay matiyaga, mabait, at hindi naghahanap sa sarili. Hindi ito madaling magalit at hindi ito nag-iingat ng mga pagkakamali. Agape-laging pinoprotektahan ang pag-ibig, laging nagtitiwala, laging umaasa, laging nagtitiyaga. Agape-ang pag-ibig ay hindi nabibigo.

Sa Bagong Tipan, dalawang pandiwa ang ginamit upang ilarawan ang paraan ng pag-ibig ng Diyos. Ang unang pandiwa, agapao Ang (25) ay malapit na nauugnay sa pangngalan agape and means to be well pleased or fond of or contented with. It is the unconditional love God the Father has for his Son (John 3:35, 15:9, 17:26), for the whole world (John 3:16), and for his children (Eph. 2:4, 1 John 3:1). God loves you the same way he loves Jesus (see pagpasok for John 17:23). The second verb, phileo (5368), means fondness or affection. It is the affection that God the Father has for his Son Jesus (John 5:20) and the disciples (John 16:27). It is the friendship Jesus had for Lazarus (John 11:3, 36) and the wretched Laodiceans (Rev. 3:19).

Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay nakuha rin sa pang-uri agapetos (27) na karaniwang isinasalin bilang minamahal. Ang ibig sabihin ng salita ay mahal na mahal, iginagalang, paborito, at karapat-dapat na mahalin. Tinukoy ng Diyos Ama si Jesus bilang kanyang minamahal na Anak (tingnan pagpasok for Matt. 3:17), and the epistle writers referred to their readers as beloved (see pagpasok for Rom. 1:7). This beautiful word captures God’s heart for you. Your heavenly Father is fond of you. You are his esteemed favorite and he is well pleased with you. He looks at you with a feeling of deep contentment knowing that you are his dearly loved child.

Manmade religion portrays God as capricious and his love as variable. “Sometimes he loves you, sometimes he doesn’t.” But the gospel of grace declares God’s love for you is constant and shadowless (Ps. 136, Jas. 1:17). Religion prostitutes the love of God by putting price tags on his affection. “You have to earn his favor.” But the gospel of grace declares that God loved you while you were a sinner and nothing can separate you from his love (Rom. 5:8, 8:38-39). Religion demands that you impress God with the fervency of your love, but the gospel of grace inspires you to trust in your heavenly Father who loves you without limit (Eph. 3:17-19).

Lahat ng mabuti tungkol sa mabuting balita—ang kaniyang pagpapatawad, pagtanggap, at katuwiran—ay mabuti at totoo dahil mahal ka ng iyong makalangit na Ama. Siya ay palaging mayroon at palagi niyang gagawin. Hindi nagbabago ang Diyos.

Mahal ka ng Diyos bilang isang ama

Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay ipinahayag sa atin sa pamamagitan ng kanyang Anak na si Jesu-Kristo (tingnan pagpasok for John 17:26), and Jesus reveals a God who loves us like a father (see pagpasok for Luke 2:49). When Jesus prayed, “Righteous Father… I have made your name known to them” (John 17:25-26), he was referring to the name of Father. And when Jesus prayed, “Father, glorify your name!” (John 12:28), he was saying, “May you be known as Father.”

May tatlong paraan para makaligtaan mo ang pag-ibig ng Diyos. Una, hindi mo nakikita ang Diyos bilang iyong makalangit na Ama. Tulad ng mga Pariseo, nagagalit ka sa pamilyar na usapan ni Jesus o tulad ng alibughang hindi mo nakikita ang iyong sarili na karapat-dapat na tawaging anak. Pangalawa, tulad ng mga Athenian na iniisip mo ang Diyos bilang Ama ng lahat, ngunit hindi ang Ama ng ako (Acts 17:28). Third, you accept that God is a Father, but he’s cold and aloof, and nothing like Jesus. Instead of drawing near as a dearly-loved child, you hold back as though you were merely a servant. These are serious errors that touch our identity. If you don’t know who your Father is, you won’t know who you are. This is why you need to see the Father that Jesus reveals.

What sort of Father does Jesus reveal? God is a loving Father (John 10:17, 14:21, 23, 16:27, 15:9, 17:23, 26), a caring Father (Matt. 6:8, 30, 32, Luke 12:30), a merciful Father (Luke 6:36), a grace-giving Father (John 1:14), a forgiving Father (Matt. 6:14, 18:27, Luke 7:47, 15:22, 23:34), a giving Father (Matt. 7:11, Luke 11:13, 12:32), a listening Father (Matt. 6:8), a responsive Father (Matt. 7:11, 18:19, Luke 11:13, John 15:16, 16:23, 26), a faithful Father (John 16:32), a holy and righteous Father (John 17:11, 25), a praiseworthy Father (Matt. 5:16), and a perfect Father (Matt. 5:48).

Jesus referred to God as Father more than 160 times in the Gospels and the epistle writers continued this theme (e.g., Rom. 1:7, Jas. 1:27, 1 Pet. 1:2, 1 John 2:14, Jude 1:1). This is what makes the new covenant new and this is the good news an orphaned world needs to hear: God does not love us like a king but a father. In the greatest parable ever told, Jesus revealed that God is like a father watching for your return, who runs when he sees you coming, and who falls on you with hugs and kisses (Luke 15:20). As a dearly-loved child, you can rest in your Father’s love knowing that you have nothing to prove.

Maraming pangalan ang Bibliya para sa Diyos, ngunit binigyan tayo ni Jesus ng pinakamagandang pangalan sa lahat: “Abba, Ama” (tingnan pagpasok for Mark 14:36). Abba ay hindi pangalan ng isang malayo at misteryosong Diyos. Abba is your heavenly Father who cares for you and knows your needs (see Matt. 6:31–32).

Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay walang kondisyon

Ang agape-love of God is other-focused and self-sacrificing (John 15:13, Eph. 5:2, 25, 1 John 3:16). Agape-love takes no account of the evil done to it (1 Cor. 13:5, AMP). Jesus knew the name of every soldier who beat him, every person who mocked him, and every Pharisee who thought he was the devil. Yet he still went to the cross so that they might be reconciled to God.

The wonder of the cross reveals God’s unconditional love for us (Rom. 5:8, 1 John 4:10). God did not wait for us to repent or get cleaned up before he loved us. While we were in the filth of our sin and self-righteousness he came and hugged us.

Hinding-hindi ka gagawin ng Diyos na tumalon sa mga hoop upang matamo ang kanyang pagmamahal. Hindi ka na niya mamahalin kung magtagumpay ka at hindi ka niya mamahalin kung mabigo ka. Kung aakayin mo ang milyun-milyon kay Kristo o wala man lang, mamahalin ka niya pareho. Wala kang magagawa para mas mahalin ka niya, at wala kang magagawa para mabawasan ang pagmamahal niya sa iyo. Ang kanyang pag-ibig ay walang hanggan.

Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay walang hangganan

Paul challenged the Ephesians to comprehend the vastness of God’s love. “Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights!” (Eph. 3:18, MSG). Trying to comprehend “the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge” (Eph. 3:19) is like using a thimble to measure the oceans. It’s a neverending occupation. But this is how we grow. Just as we go to the gym to stretch our physical muscles, we stretch our faith muscles by trying to grasp the limits of Christ’s love for us.

Isang lumang pag-iisip ng tipan ang nananalangin, "Tulungan ako ng Diyos na mahalin ka nang higit pa." Ngunit isang bagong pag-iisip ng tipan ang nananalangin, "Diyos, tulungan mo akong malaman ang iyong pag-ibig." Habang tinatanggap natin mula sa kasaganaan ng kanyang pag-ibig, lumalago tayo sa pag-ibig at pananampalataya sa Diyos.

Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay hindi nagkukulang

The miracle of the resurrection reveals that the love of God never fails (Is. 54:10, 1 Cor. 13:8). You can take the love of God and nail it to a cross and he will still love you enough to come back from the dead to tell you that you’re forgiven and that he loves you and wants to be with you forever.

Every kind of love you will experience in this world is a failing love—it breaks and it bruises, it disappoints and ultimately it dies. But God’s love never fails. Nothing can separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:38–39). Not even death can separate you from your Father’s love.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jer. 31:3). Everlasting means everlasting. Either God has to raise you from the dead and keep on loving you or he is a liar. Cancer can’t keep you from his love. Neither can anxiety, AIDS, or alcoholism. The devil and all his demons cannot separate you from his love. The only thing that can come between you and his love is your refusal to receive it. Think of the prodigal son. His father loved him the same at the beginning of the story as at the end. But the prodigal didn’t know his father’s love until he was embraced.

Nilalang ka ng iyong makalangit na Ama bilang kapahayagan ng kaniyang pag-ibig para sa layuning matanggap ang kaniyang pag-ibig. Bagama't gustung-gusto ka niyang mahalin, hindi siya makukuntento hangga't hindi mo nalalaman at natatanggap ang kanyang pagmamahal at nagagawa mong mahalin siya pabalik. Wala nang hihigit pang hangarin sa buhay kaysa sa pag-aaral na mamuhay sa pag-ibig ng iyong makalangit na Ama at ibahagi ang kanyang pag-ibig sa iba.

Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay nagbibigay inspirasyon sa atin na magtiwala sa kanya

Sinasabi ng relihiyong gawa ng tao na mas mahal mo ang Diyos o kung hindi, ngunit ipinakikita ng ebanghelyo ng biyaya kung gaano ka personal na minamahal ng Diyos. Siya ay “mahal ako at ibinigay ang kanyang sarili para sa ako” (Gal. 2:20). The question is not “do you love God?”, but “do you know how much he loves you?” Do you know the love of Christ (Eph. 3:19)? When you know how good God is and how much he loves you, he is easy to trust. Just as our love for God is a response to his love for us (Luke 7:42), our faith in God is a response to his faith in us (see pagpasok for Eph. 6:23).

Ang agape-love of God “doesn’t force itself on others” (1 Cor. 13:5, MSG). It waits for you to “come to know and believe the love which God has for us” (1 John 4:16). Under the old law-keeping covenant, you were commanded to love the Lord your God with all your heart (Matt 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27). But in the new covenant of grace, we are exhorted to walk in his love (Eph. 5:2), keep ourselves in his love (Jude 1:21), remain in his love (John 15:9, 10, 1 John 4:12, 16), and not wander from his love (Rev. 2:4).

“May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God” (2 Th. 3:5). Learning to live in the love of God is the essence of Christianity, because nothing else can change us. Knowing the love of God brings us peace (2 Cor. 13:11) and the confidence (1 John 4:17) that displaces fear and worry (Matt. 6:31-32, 1 John 4:18). His love that fills us with grace (2 Cor. 13:14, Eph. 6:24) making us more than conquerors (Rom. 8:37). It is the love of God that empowers us to do good works (Heb. 10:24) and abound in love for others (1 John 4:7, 10-11), whether they are family members (Eph. 5:25), fellow believers (John 13:34, 1 Th. 4:9, 1 John 3:11) or mortal enemies (Matt. 5:44, Luke 6:27, 35).

Sa napakatagal na panahon na ipinaglalaban ng relihiyon ang pag-ibig ng Diyos sa pagsasabi sa atin na dapat tayong kumilos at gumanap bago tayo mahalin ng ating Ama. Ito ang pinakamalaking krimen na naidulot sa sangkatauhan. Iniwan tayong ulila, gulong-gulo, at nasa kulungan ng mga patay na gawa. Ang relihiyong gawa ng tao ay nagsasabi na ang Diyos ay galit at dapat na patahimikin. Ngunit ipinakikita sa atin ni Hesus na ang mukha ng Diyos ay nagniningning sa atin nang may pag-ibig at biyaya.

Walang diyos na ginawa ng tao ang kilala bilang kaibigan ng mga makasalanan at walang ibang relihiyon ang nagpapahayag ng dakilang pagmamahal ng Diyos sa sangkatauhan. Ang walang pasubali, hindi nagkukulang, at walang limitasyong pag-ibig ng Diyos para sa iyo ang gumagawa ng mabuting balita magandang balita.

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  1. Paul, I have just been reading some of the Glossary of Grace. What can I say, what a fantastic blessing you are creating for all of us. It is so easy to read and turn to the scriptures. I love it !!! Thank you so much for all the work it’s taken to do this, and it’s still a work in progress. Blessings upon you!

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