Omega Fire Ministries Rhema for Living 8 November 2021 | Sunday Daily Devotional
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Your First Love
by Dr. (Mrs) Lizzy Johnson-Suleman
BIBLE READING: Leviticus 21-24
TEXT: “Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love”. Revelation 2 :4
As a Christian, your heart ought to be aglow with genuine love for Christ, unless you are not genuinely saved as a result of having not truly repented from your sins even though you have confessed Jesus. It becomes disastrous when we get to a state where we consider as less important, the condition of our first love. God did not hesitate to point out the mistake the church at Ephesus made by falling into this state. He told them that in spite of those good things they were occupied with, he would remove their candlestick because they had forsaken their first love. Thank God they had the opportunity to repent.
Beloved, what really is the first love of God? This is that deep and pure affection; his kind of love towards us which we are born into at our surrendering to Christ. It is the kind of affection between two lovers by which they share deep intimacies just between themselves to the exclusion of all others. God cherishes his communion with his bride (the believer). The lesson here is that we should not allow our labour of service no matter how expedient to cloud our consciousness and the necessity to maintain our first love for Jesus.
What the expressions of this love? They include: Strong desire to be in the presence of God praising, thanking and worshipping Him spontaneously singing to Him either on private or in public. Another is by spontaneously expressing a fondness of him, making reference to Him at all times. Also, it includes readily resorting to him when confronted with any given difficult situation, enjoying imitating him all the way such as by living holy.
I pray that God will help you to recognize the true state of your first love for Him and the grace to sustain it.
PRAYER: My Father! My Father! As I begin to pray now, in any way I have derailed from my first love for you, I repent and ask for mercy, in Jesus name…
Omega Fire Ministries Rhema for Living 8 November 2021 Daily Devotional from the Desk of Dr. (Mrs) Lizzy Johnson-Suleman, Omega Fire Ministries International, Auchi Edo State