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1 | the first love | Rev 2:4 | blue.eyes | 201152 | ||
Does anyone feel that they have left the first love .and what could we do to return to him ?sometime we loose forcus and foreget what he done for us and we dont do what we suppose to do to get closer to our Lord . | ||||||
2 | the first love | Rev 2:4 | DocTrinsograce | 201154 | ||
Hi, blue eyes... Firstly -- and most importantly -- we need to get rid of the idea that our relationship with the Lord is based on how we feel. Imagine an infant adopted into a family. They had no say in the matter. Instead it was a legal process enacted through the courts between the ward of the child and the adopting parents. Now as the child gets older, does the feelings of that child ever enter in to their relationship with the family? In other words, on days that they are feeling more loving, are they more a child of the family than they are on days that they are feeling less loving? Not at all. Their feelings have nothing to do with it. Secondly, we need to recognize that Biblical love is much more than a matter of feelings. Love is always a matter of action. It can and should be expressed regardless of our feelings. For example, I show my love for you and the others reading this forum by responding as clearly and as soundly as possible in my posts. Sure, there are days that I have great feelings of compassion for every one of you. On the other hand, there are days that I am feeling something different, or I am even feeling compassion for some other group of people. Regardless, my love is made manifest in the very same way no matter how I am feeling. You see, God so loved the world that He DID something. It doesn't say God so loved the world that He FELT something. Love is always a matter of doing. Thirdly, we must understand the nature of our hearts. The human heart is the most deceitful thing in all of creation. Its ability to deceive exceeds even that of the Devil himself. As part of our salvation, we are fundamentally changed by God. Nevertheless, we continuously struggle with the old nature. We constantly create idols to worship. We are in constant need of being disciplined. Finally, we look at the instruction from the passage you've pointed out. What does Christ say is the remedy? Look at the first sentence in the verse that follows: "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first" (Revelation 2:5a ESV). 1. Remember It is easy to forget where we started from, how wretched we were, and how great a work of God it took to save us. 2. Repent Repentance is often spoken of as an important aspect of salvation. However, it is also a regular discipline of believers, divinely empowered by the active work of the Holy Spirit Himself. 3. Repeat The gospel is, certainly, at the core of evangelism. It is the good news we proclaim to a lost and dying world. However, we forget that the gospel is also at the very center of our daily lives in Christ. One of my pastors used to say, "The gospel is not the ABC's of our faith, but the A through Z of our faith." The gospel is being worked out in our lives every single day. It will be the central theme of our praises in glory. So, just as we did at the very beginning, we must do every day: depend on God alone to save us. We cast our utter inability upon Him, for He is able to present us holy and blameless to Himself upon His return. We are buried in the likeness of Christ's death, now by the power of God, we live in the likeness of His life. In Him, Doc |
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