December 18 - In love

“According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:” Ephesians 1v4

And we know that love – suffereth long; is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up; behaves not itself unseemly; seeketh not her own; is not easily provoked; thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things; believeth all things; hopeth all things; endureth all things; never fails; of faith, hope and love, it is the greatest.

So God chose us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before God in love. This could mean in love God chose us, or that as we walk before God we should live in a bubble of love. As we see in 1 John 4v7-9:

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God: and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.”

Here we see a manifestation of God’s love, in that He sent Jesus to die for us so that we might live through Him. And we know too that in Him we live, and move and have our being.

Have a glorious day.