Forgotten First Love
Guest Blog by Gary Riedel
S - SCRIPTURE:
Revelation 2:4 Yet I hold this against you you have forsaken your first love!
O - Observation:
Jesus isn’t talking here about our old high-school sweetheart, but rather He is talking about
being unfaithful to Him. The church at Ephesus was praised for many of the things they did correctly, their hard work and perseverance, intolerance of wicked men they have endured hardship for the name of Jesus and have not grown weary, yet Jesus still makes this statement
about them because they have become entwined in their orthodoxy and their attention to doing things by the man made book has taken their attention away from Him.
A - APPLICATION: What a sobering thought, we get so hung up on our habits and the way we’ve always done it that we put more effort and soul into that than in worshiping our God or remembering the great sacrifice Jesus made for us. GOD WANTS ALL OF OUR HEART ALL THE TIME!
P - PRAYER:
Gracious Father, by the power of Your Spirit, never let us forsake JESUS, our first love above all else, for You gave us all else! In Jesus Name, Amen
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