Shalom dear doves,
 

If you missed it yesterday at doves ... then look here:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2007/davidr59.htm
 

This is how we (get to) know what (God's) love is ...

1Jo 3:16
Hereby perceive we the love of God,
because he laid down his life for us:
and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

(And it may be that ... we get to experience this, only ... as we in-fact do ...
 'lay down our lives for the brethren.')
 

De 7: 6-11
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God:
the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself,
above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

The LORD did not set his love upon you,
nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people;
for ye were the fewest of all people:

But because the LORD loved you,
and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers,
hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Know therefore that the LORD thy God,
he is God,
the faithful God,
which keepeth covenant and mercy
with them that love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations;

And repayeth them that hate him
to their face, to destroy them:

he will not be slack to him that hateth him,
he will repay him to his face.

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments,
and the statutes,
and the judgments,
which I command thee this day,
to do them.
 

Joh 14:15,23
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
...
Jesus answered and said unto him,
If a man love me, he will keep my words:
and my Father will love him,
and we will come unto him,
and make our abode with him.
 

Jo 1:10,11,12
He was in the world,
and the world was made by him,
and the world knew him not.

He came unto his own,
and his own received him not.

But as many as received him,
to them
gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name:
 

Eph 1:6.7
To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
In whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace.
 

Re 1:5
...Jesus Christ,
who is the faithful witness,
and the first begotten of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth.
Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
 

1Jo 4:11
Beloved,
if God so loved us,
we ought also to love one another.
 

1Jo 4:19
We love him,
because he first loved us.
 

Ps 91:14
Because he hath set his love upon me,
therefore will I deliver him:
I will set him on high,
because he hath known my name.

1Jo 5:1-5
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God:
and every one that loveth him that begat
loveth him also that is begotten of him.

By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God,
and keep his commandments.

For this is the love of God,
that we keep his commandments:
and his commandments are not grievous.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:
and this is the victory that overcometh the world,
even our faith.

Who is he that overcometh the world,
but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
 

Ps 9:10
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee:
for thou,
LORD,
hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
 

Baruch HaShem!
 

David
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