Do You Recall Your First Love?
First Love Series - Part 1
The first love is intense. You cannot imagine being without the person. You don’t think you will ever trust anyone as much as you trust the person. They understand you better than anyone else does. The connection is so amazing until…the breakup. Then you realize how strong the first love feeling was because the pain of the breakup is just as powerful.
Think back to your first love and focus on how it made you feel to love someone this way. Although, today you know you should not have given so much of yourself, recall that you did. Do you remember the feeling?
Now think about this: God wants you love him with the magnitude of love you gave in that first love relationship. Notice I did not say “the drama”, because with God is no drama. The only one who may choose to break it off is you.
God wants the intensity of that first love in relationship with you through Christ. The first love’s desire for closeness, for trust and complete understanding. All of this is available in the Lover of Your Soul.
So do you have a first love desire for God today?
Consider your current relationship with God. Does it require some first love infusion? You may be doing good actions for God, but does your motivation stem from a first love surrender to him?
In Revelations 2:1-5 NJKV, the accusation against the Ephesian church refers to their passion for doctrinal truth and moral purity. Both are good, but if they are not done out of love, then they are worthless pursuits. The Ephesian church had left their first love, the love for Christ, and began to do good for God out of their own agendas. God told them to repent, to return to their first love and to use the first love as a basis for all their activity.
Do you need a first love revival?
Perhaps you realize you’re not loving God with the intensity first love feelings convey. Revival begins this way:
Acknowledge you have deserted your first love – agree you don’t love Him the way you should
Identify what happened to your first love – are you angry, disappointed, hurt, etc., at God?
Talk with God about it - Tell it to him, repent and ask for forgiveness; He’s been waiting for this conversation
Start over with renewed passion for him, committing all you do based on this love
To get started, pray for the desire of this verse every day during the month of February;
As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. - Psalm 42:1 NKJV
STOP! Take a moment join us.
Sometimes being a Christian is challenging. Often we aren’t honest about our struggle.
Do you want growth, insight and courage to help through this journey?