MY FIRST LOVE
Today's reading: Revelation 1-6

"Look how far you have fallen from your first love! Turn back to me again and work as you did at first..." Revelation 2:5 NLT

Some of you write about how convinced you are I pen certain devotions just for you. You tell of it hitting you where you need it. You speak of being convicted. You mention me doing everything to point to you, except typing in your name.

I wish this morning I felt I was writing for you--for anyone really. I wish so much I were.

The Christmas season, the hustle and bustle of lives lived in the world but not for the world and this verse have really stopped me in my tracks this morning. My heart's pounding. My stomach has that sick knotted feel to it.

I don't do, pray, seek, honor, live for, worship, speak of, bow before, testify or spend time with God like I once did.

Oh, it's not that I don't do all those things anymore, it's just I've allowed the excitement and awe to turn what I do for Him each day into a ritual, a routine, a task or a line to mark off my to-do list.

I'm noticing, by the grace and mercy of God, that I have fallen away from my first love. So, excuse me while He and I spend a little time talking that sad fact over.