Our First Love Volume 1

Today, we have so many distractions taking our attention and our affection from our Lord and Savior. The worries of this world increase daily as we get closer to the end times. Pressures of the keeping up with family, career, health, and friends all come as a part of this life. So much so that sometimes we lose sight of our first love. First let’s see why our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will always be considered our first love. This reason is because we never knew what love was until He showed us. The love that we used to love people with came from a worldly stand point which had more to do with fulfilling our own desires than with the sacrifice of ourselves for others. Now, one of the greatest hindrances to a believers walk is that they fell out of love with their first love. Simply think about your relationship with our Lord and Savior as one with a significant other. Remember when all you wanted to do is spend time with them. All you wanted to do is learn all about them and do those things which pleased them. Well, our Lord is the same way and we know that Our God is a Jealous God, as He should Be!!! What husband would want to share his wife with another man or vice versa. What father or mother would have their child to leave their home and move in with another family to grow up. A loving Father will not have another raising His child, He would delight in raising His own children and building them up into the mature adults that He wishes them to be!!! We can see this in scripture and this week we will look at the life of Joshua as an example of a child of God who never left His first Love!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of Loving your First Love on purpose!!!!!

Revelation 2

1Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
5Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Exodus 33

The Tent of Meeting
7 Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.” Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. 8 And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. 9 As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the LORD spoke with Moses. 10 Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent. 11 The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.