Daily devotion – when love goes missing
When a man is courting a woman with the hope that she may, Lord willing, become his wife, there is nothing that he will not do or pursue to win her heart. Nothing is too hard, too far, too expensive for him to please and bring joy to the one he loves.
The key to having a meaningful, real, passionate and true relationship with Jesus Christ is bound in our love for our Saviour Jesus Christ. But this love is not some wistful emotion, no this love is driven by the knowledge that Jesus Christ suffered and died on Calvary’s Cross and then rose again from the grave revealing to us that our sins have been paid for by Him and now we are forgiven!
Jesus in His letter to the Church of Ephesus wrote that He had a major concern with their current relationship – their first love for Him was missing. He commended them for their works and doctrinal purity but the key element for their relationship had gone missing. Just as in many marriages that fall apart or drift apart, the relationship simply ends up becoming a role play and nothing more. The love has been left behind!
Rev 2:4 “Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
The Church is the bride of Christ, and for a bride to fail in love is to fail in all things. It is idle for the wife to say that she is obedient, and so forth; if love to her husband has evaporated, her wifely duty cannot be fulfilled; she has lost the very life and soul of the marriage state.
So too in our walk with God, this is the most important matter, our love for Christ, because it touches the very heart of that communion with Him which is the crown and essence of our spiritual life.
As a Church, we must love Jesus or else we have lost our reason for existence. Lose love, lose all. Leave our first love, we have left strength and peace and joy and holiness.
This week, take time to be with Him who loves you. Repent of your neglect or indifference to Him and with your Bible and heart open, let Him refresh and restore once again the love that first drew you to Him for who He is – your Saviour and Lord.