Is your first love for Jesus still burning bright, or has the fire cooled down and the ambers lost their glow. Jesus is your first love, He is the Alpha and Omega, and therefore should be first and last. He is to be the first love in your life that shines bright and continues to burn fiercely all your life through.
Revelations 2:2 to 4. “I know your works, your labour, your patience, and that you can not bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them to be liars. And you have perservered and have patience, and have laboured for My name’s sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”
This is the message to the church of Ephesus. They are well commended for all their works and characteristics, and yet they are charged with having lost the burning first love that Jesus commands should be foremost in our lives.
Jesus commanded us that the greatest commandment of all time is to love the Lord God with all of our hearts. The second greatest is that we love our neighbour as we love ourselves. If you do not have the love of Jesus burning bright within your hearts, then anything else that you may do is of no real value. You can perform great and wonderful miracles, work 24/7 to spread the gospel, have extreme patience and endure all the trials, but if you do not have the light of love shining through you, it is of no avail.
Timothy says that we are to stir up the gift of God which is in you (2Timothy 1:6). We are to stir up the fire that is within us so that the love of Jesus shines bright from within and so that all who see us will be witness to the fact that we are as madly in love with Jesus as we were the first day that we accepted Jesus into our lives.
