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First Love
“Thou hast left thy first love” (Revelation 2:4).
When there comes a time that we aren’t as on fire for the Lord as we used to be, when we seem to have left our first love, we need to go back and read Matthew 27, or Luke 22, or Mark 14 and 15, or John 19. Read and meditate on those accounts of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. Read them slowly and prayerfully. Let these accounts touch your heart and soul. “For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds” (Hebrews 12:3). Think of what He suffered, not only at the hand of man, but at the hand of God. “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
Above all, if there is something that has come between you and the Lord so you don’t feel that warmth and love toward Him, kneel down and ask Him to show you what it is and then ask Him for the grace to remove it. Rest assured that the Lord will show you what it is, because it is His delight to restore you to happy communion with Himself.
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