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First Love

    Do you remember when you first met Jesus? What a magical time it was for us all. It was like the thrill of falling in love. Your spirits are lifted, you can't stop smiling, and you can't wait to tell everyone else all about it! Are you still like that now? Why does our love for Jesus change over time? Shouldn't following Jesus be even more exciting and wonderful than it was then?

    In the book of Revelation, Jesus used John to tell the church of Ephesus that they had lost the love that they had for Him at first and that He is holding it against them. We should know better than to make the same mistake, yet we all find our love for the Lord slipping at times. Maybe its because we forget to thank Him for the blessings in difficult circumstances, because we stop seeking Him, or because He becomes too familiar. Nothing is a valid excuse, however, for us to stop fervently loving Jesus.

    Like a great marriage, our flame for Him should never go out. We will never know all that there is to know about Him and that should make following Him so much more exhilarating. There's always something more to be grasped, more to be thankful for, and so much deeper we can go. Continue to seek and love the One who embodies love itself.


Revelation 2:4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. (ESV)

Jeremiah 2:2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown."

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure virgin to Christ. (HCSB)

 1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (NIV)

Luke 10:27 ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ (NIV)

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