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Daily Bible Thought: He Loved us First

1Pet.1:8 whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--

The thing that connect us to everything in this world is communication, and the thing that brought this world into darkness was the lost of communication with God. The greater communication the more people are connected, our lives are dependent upon communication. The more a society becomes dependent upon material objects the less communication with each other, the greater the distrust, which ends every good relationship.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Hebrews 13:5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."{Deuteronomy 31:6}

But let us note there is righteous communication and unrighteous communication that comes from the spirit world that we must also contend with daily! This thought is why so many cannot come to know God? Subsequently, they take all the principle of communication with God by physical writings, teachers, religions, movies, and the like, finding they don't know the love of God at all!

Revelation 2:4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

1 John 2:27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

They are not connected to the teacher as these brothers and sisters Peter spoke to here in his letters were. Most Christian's today are connected to God by feelings they get from reading God's words the bible. Some even uses the bible as a good luck charm, spinning the pages like a crap shoot to see what verse pops up and than act upon that direction.

James 1:2 Count it all joy, my brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, when you fall into various temptations, 1:3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
1:4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. 1:6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 1:7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 1:8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Sadly, so many have lost faith when their numbers for the bible lottery failed them in understanding God, being mislead into some destructive relationship or habit. However, the brothers and sisters in Peters letter were connected to a living truth restored to mankind by Christ Jesus. He became the truth to God's love for us, where God can personally communicate with us in Christ, so we understand his love. This constant spiritual intercourse with God by Holy Spirit is the truth of what Peter speaks to here in the verses above.

Rom. 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22} 8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

It was not projecting love by reading a word from the bible, and our having feelings of love for what God done for us that day, no! It is a living love, where Spirit communication cleanse our hearts of all doubt of God's love towards us removing the doubt of our daily short comings in not being perfect enough. One need not project any feeling into God's motives good or bad. No! These brothers and sisters lived with God; Christ was in them, and they were in him. They were the light, light of what? Light of knowing God's thoughts, his love for them.

1 John 2:10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

They needed no book to teach them that, or a religion which is like a government teaching a man about his wife's love, only and evil person would steal such a position from the man. Only a presumptuous person would think they could teach God's children God's love by word or research from the bible! Love is built on an interchange of communication between a man and a woman, it involves intimacy night and day, does it not? No! Our relationship with God is not words, it is more, it is having a relationship with another heart, mind, soul in Spirit and truth.

Eph. 5:24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; 5:26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Eph.5:32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. 5:33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

It is that relationship that feeds and cherish us, so we can say, the above words and they become reality, not thinking reality, but truth which is actions, where actions than become truth to us. Not that we define truth by words, like the world does, where one word can change a relationship to imputing evil to others. Where one word can remove a life time of association.

1Cor.13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. 13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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