Your Love As A Bride

Jeremiah 2:2-3 (ESV)

2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD,

“I remember the devotion of your youth,

your love as a bride,

how you followed me in the wilderness,

in a land not sown.

3 Israel was holy to the LORD,

the firstfruits of his harvest.

All who ate of it incurred guilt;

disaster came upon them,

declares the LORD.”

Jesus says something like this to the church in Ephesus in Revelation 2:3-4. Their first love of the Lord has faded into a memory. The wilderness journey of Israel is like the wilderness journey of the Church today. We follow Jesus in the wilderness of the world, but often settle into a complacency of routine. 

We have become the harvest of His word made flesh. As such, we can become the bride of Christ if we do not fall in the wilderness and persevere in the faith of obedience to the end. 

Poor In Spirit

Blessed are those poor in spirit, for they may now be filled with the riches of the Holy Spirit. 

Your Body His Body

1 Corinthians 6:19 (ESV)

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

The body of Christ is the temple of the Lord and His house of prayer. It is filled with those who worship Him in Spirit. 

Come

Revelation 22:17 (ESV)

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

The Spirit and Bride are one because they have been joined together in the marriage of heaven and earth. 

The disciples of John the Baptist asked Jesus where He was staying. He said, “Come and see.” For those today who ask that question, the answer is the same.

“Come and see.”

Before You Today

Deuteronomy 30:15 (ESV)

“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.

God placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. He has done so in the heart of man. 

God has given each of us that choice. This is the choice that enables us to overcome the world of our flesh and eat from the tree of life. To be with Christ. 

The Miracle Of Life

The miracle of life is receiving the life of the Lord. 

Like A Leaf

Isaiah 64:6 (ESV)

6 We have all become like one who is unclean,

and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.

We all fade like a leaf,

and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Jesus cursed the fig tree which had no fruit, and it withered to the ground. (Mat 21:18) Israel is the fig tree that was uprooted from the promised land and scattered among the nations. 

They will be restored as leaves on the tree of life, made green all year, and will produce the fruit for the healing of the nations. (Rev 22:1-2)