Remember when you first met that "someone special?" That boy or girl who could make your heart flutter at the mere mention of their name, around whom you would re-arrange your entire schedule just so that you could see each other for a few minutes? Do you remember talking on the phone for hours and hours, until way too late and night? Perhaps sending each other little love notes and gifts, just to remind each other that you were thinking of each other? Or talking about about them to anyone and everyone who would listen, because they were just so amazing that they had to be shared with everyone you knew?
Were you ever like that with God? Did you ever get light-hearted and dizzy at the mere thought of spending time with Him? Did you ever gasp with excitement when He revealed more of Himself to you through prayer or reading your Bible? Was there ever a time when He was all you could really think about? When you re-arranged your whole schedule so that you could spend some time with Him?
And, if you were once like that...are you still? Are you in passionate about God? Do you want to be with Him? Is He your lover, your special someone? Ohh, dear ones, how God wants to lavish His love on us. He wants to show us everything about Him, everything about His magnificent care, His extravagant love for us. He wants nothing more than to shower us with His affections, to cradle us in His arms and never let us go. But do you let Him?
If there was ever a time when God was truly the love of your life, but that is no longer the case, I pray that He restores you to Himself. And, if you have never experienced that intimate, passionate, obsessive love for being in the Father's presence, I pray that you will find it. Because loving God is really, when it comes down to it, the point of life. If you're forgotten how to love Him, then you're really missing the whole point of life.
Were you ever like that with God? Did you ever get light-hearted and dizzy at the mere thought of spending time with Him? Did you ever gasp with excitement when He revealed more of Himself to you through prayer or reading your Bible? Was there ever a time when He was all you could really think about? When you re-arranged your whole schedule so that you could spend some time with Him?
And, if you were once like that...are you still? Are you in passionate about God? Do you want to be with Him? Is He your lover, your special someone? Ohh, dear ones, how God wants to lavish His love on us. He wants to show us everything about Him, everything about His magnificent care, His extravagant love for us. He wants nothing more than to shower us with His affections, to cradle us in His arms and never let us go. But do you let Him?
If there was ever a time when God was truly the love of your life, but that is no longer the case, I pray that He restores you to Himself. And, if you have never experienced that intimate, passionate, obsessive love for being in the Father's presence, I pray that you will find it. Because loving God is really, when it comes down to it, the point of life. If you're forgotten how to love Him, then you're really missing the whole point of life.
Revelation 2:1-5
1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands. 2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. 5Consider how far 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.
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