Friday, May 26, 2017

FINDING FIRST LOVE




                   It's been quite a rough road seemingly uncomfortable to explain and confess my unwilling deliberate efforts. Maybe, in my walk, I had experienced this a lot many times, but have I never put it in lines which indeed had a very great effect so far. I'm just guessing the same happens with you. The walk of our faith isn't an inclined linear graph. Many times, we fall, we rise, we waver, we battle...But there are conscious acts which hold against God that we don't want to get rid of. In few circumstances, we sin unwittingly, though we hate lurking around, still, we give in. Such kinds dwindle away our innocencies that we would no more be the ones, God had found in a squalor. Those impeccant faces had been lost. You being a born again Christian, God knew, you had a soul that always fired for Him in the beginning. He knew how remarkable your faith had been in the yester years. But He also knew how the seeds of pride uprooted, accumulated your heart, and how you had fallen from a height forgetting the first of loves. God's gonna deal the same with the Church of Ephesus in Revelation 2. He says, 
    "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.You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary."
On a positive note, God talks to the church of Ephesus (here we), that it has gone through the hardships, trials, testings, persecution, inward wrestling etc.

    "Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider 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."
The over righteous filthy rags has separated us from our first love. The self-seeking disobedience made our salvation hang in the air. We toiled digging black deeps to satisfy our wrecked souls revetting homes that are supposed to be broken. Enough. God holds this against us.
    "If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place."
    "To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God."
Well, the Scripture's unmistakable caution does not only correct, every time you repent, but it makes you understand the lucid love of Christ. Even though your sin is too fathomless to forgive, His compassion is boundless, His mercy is immense. How many times ever we rise and fall, He's got our backs. But the point is how often do you remember Your First Love...?!