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But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.  — Revelation 2:4
Bible League: Living His Word
“Yes, God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him would not be lost but have eternal life.”
— John 3:16 ERV

True love’s source is the Lord Jesus Christ. True love has no beginning and no end. We, as human beings, are limited when trying to describe or explain what true love from God is. God's Word is a message of love addressed to all humankind.

The first two major commandments given to humankind, we find in the Bible, which say: “Jesus answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and most important command. And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbor the same as you love yourself.’ All of the law and the writings of the prophets take their meaning from these two commands.” (Matthew 22:37-39).

Only with the help of the Lord, we are able to have this true love, which is very needed now in this life. If we look around us, we will be convinced that the words of Mother Teresa are the absolute truth when she said that the world is hungrier for Love than for bread. All of humanity can be lost without this love.

People in this world need God’s love, care, and compassion. And we as His children should be the tools in His hands to share this love through His Word to humankind.

When we have and share this love from our God, then we pass His life to surrounding people. Paul the Apostle says, “You should owe nothing to anyone, except that you will always owe love to each other. The person who loves others has done all that the law commands” (Romans 13:8).

By Pastor Mamikon Abgaryan, Bible League International partner, Armenia
Bible in a Year
Old Testament Reading
Leviticus 13


Leviticus 13 -- Rules for Skin Diseases, Mildew

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New Testament Reading
Matthew 26:20-54


Matthew 26 -- Plot to Kill Jesus; Jesus Anointed at Bethany; Last Supper; Judas' Betrayal; Jesus before Caiaphas; Peter Disowns Jesus

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Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library.
Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion
No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety.
Insight
David's heart was glad—he had found the secret to joy. True joy is far deeper than happiness; we can feel joy in spite of our deepest troubles. Happiness is temporary because it is based on external circumstances, but joy is lasting because it is based on God's presence within us.
Challenge
As we contemplate his daily presence, we will find contentment. As we understand the future he has for us, we will experience joy. Don't base your life on circumstances, but on God.
Morning and Evening by Spurgeon
Revelation 2:4  Thou hast left thy first love.

Ever to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw the Lord, lost our burden, received the roll of promise, rejoiced in full salvation, and went on our way in peace. It was spring time in the soul; the winter was past; the mutterings of Sinai's thunders were hushed; the flashings of its lightnings were no more perceived; God was beheld as reconciled; the law threatened no vengeance, justice demanded no punishment. Then the flowers appeared in our heart; hope, love, peace, and patience sprung from the sod; the hyacinth of repentance, the snowdrop of pure holiness, the crocus of golden faith, the daffodil of early love, all decked the garden of the soul. The time of the singing of birds was come, and we rejoiced with thanksgiving; we magnified the holy name of our forgiving God, and our resolve was, "Lord, I am thine, wholly thine; all I am, and all I have, I would devote to thee. Thou hast bought me with thy blood--let me spend myself and be spent in thy service. In life and in death let me be consecrated to thee." How have we kept this resolve? Our espousal love burned with a holy flame of devoutedness to Jesus--is it the same now? Might not Jesus well say to us, "I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love"? Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers. We give to God pence when he deserveth pounds, nay, deserveth our heart's blood to be coined in the service of his church and of his truth. But shall we continue thus? O Lord, after thou hast so richly blessed us, shall we be ungrateful and become indifferent to thy good cause and work? O quicken us that we may return to our first love, and do our first works! Send us a genial spring, O Sun of Righteousness.

Daily Light on the Daily Path
Psalm 104:16  The trees of the LORD drink their fill, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

Hosea 14:5,6  I will be like the dew to Israel; He will blossom like the lily, And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon. • His shoots will sprout, And his beauty will be like the olive tree And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

Jeremiah 17:7,8  "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD. • "For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit.

Ezekiel 17:24  "All the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD; I bring down the high tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will perform it."

Psalm 92:12-14  The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. • Planted in the house of the LORD, They will flourish in the courts of our God. • They will still yield fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and very green,

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