Do you guys remember your first love? Your mind might be traveling back to that first girlfriend or boyfriend you gave your heart to. But, I am more thinking if you are a born-again Christian believer. Do you guys remember having your first love when you came to know Jesus as your personal Lord and savior? Maybe the time was many years ago? Maybe it was just yesterday? Maybe it was just a couple seconds ago?
Whenever it was, I know it must have been pretty special! I don't know about you guys, but sometimes I wish I can go back to having that kind of feeling. I mean I know that I love Jesus. It's just I know that I don't have that fire or that first love when I was first introduced to Jesus. You guys know what I'm talking about?
I might get pretty close to that feeling especially when the Lord miraculously answers a prayer that I have been praying forever for. Or, maybe the Lord is trying to liven up my love for him by putting a nice Christian song in my path. Sometimes the words just make you cry happy and not so happy tears!
Praying is still exciting and encouraging to me. I still read God's word. I try to daily I might add. Don't I deserve a pat on the back for that one? Well.. yes I know the Lord is proud of me for wanting to read his word. However, where is the fire that I used to have. Do you remember that? Your own fire I mean. Yeah I would read the Bible but it's more like because I have to. I want to go back to the times I was excited to read the Bible. It's not like I may never come across times when certain versus are cool to me. I'm just saying it's not like that a lot.
I know I am my own person. But, I'm just thinking you know who I want to go back to right now? I want to totally emulate!? My husband when he first got saved in 2001. You want to talk about Hunger? Quenching that thirst for more knowledge of God's word? My boyfriend now husband would take the train to work everyday from his parents house and you know what he would do? During that train ride he would read the Bible! Yep, and from him doing that he read the whole Bible in 6 months! At that time I did not even do that!
If you all don't want to do something your heart will not be into it and you probably won't do it. I'm thinking kind of like the writing I did before on "time". Remember it's not that you don't have time it's you don't want to make time!
The first love that I had when I first came to know Jesus as my personal Lord and savior is slowly dissipating. I feel it. And God is making me aware of it so it doesn't fully go away! I challenge you guys and Sam to work hard on remembering that first love we had when we first came to know Jesus.
Encouraging thought of the day:
Try to remember your first love with Jesus
Encouraging thought of the day:
Try to remember your first love with Jesus
Jesus Culture: We Are Hungry
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