Leaving the First Love
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Leaving the First Love

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Revelation 2:4

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

 

Bible Reading for a Year [bible]psalm108[/bible]; [bible]james5[/bible]; [bible]ezeki21-22[/bible]

 

Soren Kierkegaard, a philosopher and theologian of the 19th century, wrote a love story between a western man who went to China and fall in love with the local woman. It came to pass that he had to return to his hometown and needed to cope with a long-distance relationship. However, he promised that he would learn Chinese so they could send handwritten letters to each other.

He kept his promise by going to college to learn Chinese. He became a professor of Chinese in a university. As time went by, he became so busy that he loved his job very much. He forgot his promise that he would write letters to his girlfriend, he forgot to revisit China, and he forgot his first love to the girl.

And so did the church in Ephesus. On one side, they had achieved many great things; they worked hard and refused to quit, endured patiently, tested the false teaching, and persevered. ([bible]revel2:2-3[/bible]).

However, God had this against them, that they have left their first love ([bible]revel2:4[/bible]). They were so busy with their activities that they had no time to build love and intimate relationship with God.

Sometimes we have the same experience, aren’t we? We have our own activities, including ministry, but we turn away from our first love to God! And regardless of many things we have done, God is not pleased.

 

Leaving the first love makes us our heart cold from God; we lose faith and are unfruitful because we have left our first love.

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