First Love June 27th Devotional

Read:

Revelation 2:4,5

4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.

5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

Have you ever came to a place in your walk with the lord, where you feel like you are doing everything right. You are faithful and committed to your home church, giving of your first fruit, and it seems like there's nothing else that you need. I can remember doing this a few times in my walk with the Lord, and found myself crawling to God in tears for leaving that first love with Him. There's nothing wrong with doing the things of God as long as the motive of why we are doing them is pure. There are many faithful church members that are just going through the motions. It's great that they are faithful for this is crucial to grow as a Christian, but we can just be maintaining our walk with the Lord instead of having that healthy fellowship with Him. It's as if we serve the things we do instead of serving the one that is the giver of those things. Are you feeling like you are doing all of the right things yet there is something missing? Sometimes we can be oblivious to it though, and that's why we need to search our hearts and let God show us the things we need to change so that we can be that burning candle to a dark and lost world. We usually lose our first love by not lifting Christ up in everything we do. We have to focus on Christ Jesus through the things we do, our worship, and even our commitment to the body of Christ. Let's repent today for losing our first love, and let's focus totally on the one who has redeemed us from the jaws of hell.

Prayer:

Lord we ask that you forgive us for losing focus on you. Sometimes Lord we magnify the things we do instead of magnifying your name that causes us to do the works of you. Sometimes Lord we endure, are faithful, and have not grown weary in church things, but we have somehow lost that first love. Light that fire within us in your name we pray. Amen.

by Keith Edwards