Remember, Come Back To First Love, & Shine (Revelation 2:1-7)

“But I have this against you: you have abandoned the passionate love you had for me at the beginning." -Rev. 2:4, The Passion Translation↠Remembering what God has done in our lives…↠What Has he down? What testimonies & praises do you have?↠Laying memorial stones (Joshua 4)↠What “stones” can you lay? For you & those after…↠God longs for us to proclaim His goodness now and to future generations↠God’s people had forgotten (Jeremiah 2)↠God doesn’t move, we do (Heb. 13:5)↠”Can a bride forget her wedding dress (Jer. 2:32)? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.” God likens us forgetting the Father to the bride forgetting her dress. How distracted would she have to be to forget?↠Stumbling off the “ancient” path onto a muddy one (Jer. 18:15) vs. walking in “His” way (Psalm 119:35-37)↠The “magnificent” church at Ephesus (Rev. 2:1-7, Acts 20, Ephesians)↠They excelled at almost everything save the main thing↠”You have abandoned your passionate love for Me/your first love”↠The results of losing first love…↠The world as the enemy instead of the mission field, more passionate about other things above Christ, dull to sin, insensitive to Holy Spirit…↠Return to first works/love, keep your lampstand↠A church without light in the darkness = no impact↠Ephesus today↠Jude 21, “keep yourselves”There isn’t a call to “time out” but a call to simply RETURN, sit at His’ feet, fan into the flame and rekindle the fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you (2 Timothy 1:-6-7)*THIS WEEK: Read back over and meditate on the verses from this week.Look back in remembrance, thankfulness & praise (consider journaling, taking notes, hanging them up where they can be seen). Create and foster an environment of thankfulness. Be encouraged and spurred on to first love/first works- REMEMBER/RETURN. Get away with Him daily, make time, schedule time.Comment here