March 8
Revelation 2:4
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Do you remember when you first fell in love with Jesus? How excited you were that your sins were forgiven? How you just wanted to tell everybody what had happened to you? How you read your Bible and spent time talking with Him? And now you look around and say--hmmmmm....I don't do that quite as much.
This is the way the Christians at Ephesus were also. But now, as John is given a revelation from God, he sees that they are just not as on fire as they once were. The same can very likely be said of many of us today.
We need to remember how we felt at the beginning of our relationship with Christ and repent of the things that have caused us to slip away. Whether it is complacency, busyness, or just the fact that our heart has grown cold over the years, we need to go to God and tell Him that we are sorry and asked to be forgiven. We are always the ones who have moved away--never is it Him. Once we've done this, we must return to the way things were before. Get back in church, back in your Bible, back to daily conversations with God--whatever the area is that you have let slide. Because the good news is that God will take us back and forgive us when we ask Him.
We can't lose sight of what is important in the work of The Lord. We must not take our faith, our walk with God, our relationship for granted. We must return to that first love--that wonderful feeling we had when we first realized how merciful God is to us sinners. As an individual, a family and a congregation, it is important for us to show this love we have for Jesus and the love He has for us.
As we go through the day, let us remember to return to our first love--Jesus Christ.
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