First Love
Rev. 2:2-4
I know your deeds and your toils and perseverance, and that you cannot endure evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My names sake, and have not grown weary.
But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
As I read this I had to ask myself the question; what is He talking about?
What first love?
I can’t speak for you, but I did not come to the Lord because I loved Him. I came to the Lord because I was desperate and had nowhere else to go.
I realized the Lord was trying to convey a very important message. As I pondered on this, I thought, what was my first love?
My first love was when I was in seventh grade and I was smitten by this girl in my class. It was not a sexual attraction, it is hard to describe. In study hall we could sit together at the same desk. We would be shoulder to shoulder. I would walk home with her, it was just wonderful being with her. We shared that relationship for two years and then our paths took different turns and I lost my first love.
It reminded me of a cover on the Saturday Evening Post Magazine, you must have seen it. A young boy and girl sitting on a bench leaning against one another and a little hound dog looking very disgusted, under the bench with a fish pole forgotten on the ground, first love.
Then I was thinking; God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son to the cross. The cross was not the main issue. His love was. He desired that we could enter back into that first love, that relationship that He had with Adam and Eve and that was lost. The sin issue had to be removed so we could once again find and enter into the relationship with our Father like I had with that young lady many years ago that I lost.
What was your first love? Is that the kind of walk you have with your Father in heaven? That is what He desires.