Lesson: Our First Love<br>
Reading: First love, remembered<br>
Reference: Jer. 2:1-7<br><br>
Jeremiah 2:1: Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,<br>
Jeremiah 2:2: Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.<br>
Jeremiah 2:3: Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.<br>
Jeremiah 2:4: Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:<br>
Jeremiah 2:5: Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?<br>
Jeremiah 2:6: Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?<br>
Jeremiah 2:7: And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.<br>
(KJV)<br>