EVEN UNSEEN, YOU LOVE HIM
1Pe 1:8..Though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory.
This is not a difficult concept. To love someone without having to actually see them. Believing by faith that someone exists.
A soldier deployed to the "Sandbox" receives news that his daughter has just been born back in the U.S.. The soldier has not yet received even a one dimensional photo, yet, he loves her. He loves her even though he has never seen her tiny body. He believes because of the words of his wife. He continues to believe because he has faith in the truthfulness of her words. FAITH. 2Co 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight— The soldier loved his daughter even before her birth, he loved her FIRST. So it is with Jesus. 1Jn 4:19 We love, because He first loved us.
1Jn 4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Eph 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, Col 1:27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
The Apostle Thomas (Doubting Thomas) had great difficulty coming to grips that the Lord really did rise from the grave and return to life, by the mighty hand of God the Father. For Thomas, he has to see in order to believe; Joh 20:27-29 Then He *said to Thomas, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing." (28) Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" (29) Jesus *said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."
Do You Believe?
HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?
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