February 1, 2011

Daily Verse

“But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love Me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.” 

Rev 2:4-5

Daily Devotion

Have you ever had an experience with God that so deeply touched you that you were changed for a season? In those times many of us find ourselves reading the bible more, praying more and speaking to others about Jesus. We have the tendency to treat our fellow man with the utmost care and in the manner that God has admonished us to.  However, after these experiences this feeling usually wanes and is replaced by the cares of the world, and our first love gets swept away in a sea of work and life.

This happened to the church of Ephesus. God speaks to them in Revelations chapter 2:4-5 :  “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love Me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.”

Have you left your first love? Is God the passion that you pursue in the midst of all that your hand finds to do? We must always remember that He is the reason for all that we are.  If we have left our first love… God shows us here how to return. We must repent and begin to go back to the things we did at first: The times of prayer, and the Bible reading. Also, we must let our love life with God deepen. It is a daily process of being committed to Him. As we return to our first love He will return to us.