Your First Love

Recently my husband and I found the time and occasion to be together a lot! I stopped doing housework or making cookies etc. He stopped playing computer games or fishing with friends.

We do stuff together! We play music, listen to music, eat together, talk to together, walk the beach, ride bikes, watch for meteors, even visit with friends together. and guess what happened ...
We fell in love again.

It seems to me that being together makes the heart grow together.

It's not that we weren't in love. It's just that we had let that passion for each other fade and spending time together brought it back.

and you know what? It works that way with our love for God too!

Rev. 2:4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.

In this chapter of Revelations, Jesus is talking to a group of believers who love God and do good things but they have left that , "first love." They have abandoned the passion and attachment they had at first for the Lord. When they first understood how much God loves them and desires them and all that He has done for them, they were passionately in love with God. But then they 'got comfortable' and let that love fade.

Why does this happen?
I think there are a couple of reasons, maybe even lots of reasons.

Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

This verse is usually used to tell people to give money. But I think it stretches throughout our lives. Time is so precious. What do you give your time too? and what about your heart? Where are you pouring out your affections? Check out this verse from Solomon's proverbs:

Proverbs 5:15-23 15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe, a graceful deer-- may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love.

Wow! He's saying you can choose where you put your affections. Are you looking over the fence or to your First Love?

Are we preferring and renewing and being captivated by our 'First Love'? Whether I'm speaking of your spouse or the Lord, or both, time given to the Beloved will bring an overflow of rejoicing!


'You can't get tired of a thing before you have it.' This quote from George MacDonald's, 'The Princess and the Goblin, refers to a little princess who is surrounded by toys but is so weary of them. She misses her King Papa, she longs to be outside with the flowers. The author is telling us that those toys might look enticing but they aren't what we need. They aren't what this daughter of the King needs. She wants her King Papa!

We need our First Love. God knows this. He isn't satisfied with leaving us comfortably in 'like' with Him. He wants us to be overflowing with passion for our King Papa!

Remember my friend from my last blog who just wasn't sure about God. She was looking at other toys, taking her eyes off the Beloved. Her passion had grow cold. Cold passion is a breeding ground for doubts, and cold hearts.

Spend time with Your Beloved, may your heart always be captivated by him, may your spring overflow in the fountain of your First Love! Rejoice and be satisfied always with His never ending Love.

PS...there something else about being in passionate Love...without saying a word other people notice! One of my sons said recently, " Wow, Dad really loves you!"
So if you are longing to share your Love of God with others... make sure you really are in Love with God. If you are, it will be announced for all to see without you saying a word!