First Love?

Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.

Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold.

I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness.

You humble yourselves by going through the motions of penance, bowing your heads like reeds bending in the wind. You dress in burlap and cover yourselves with ashes.... Do you really think this will please the LORD?

When people’s lives please the LORD, even their enemies are at peace with them.

Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

You must love the LORD your God and obey all his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.

For this will please the LORD more than sacrificing cattle, more than presenting a bull with its horns and hooves.

But be very careful to obey all the commands and the instructions that Moses gave to you. Love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, hold firmly to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.

If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

So be very careful to love the LORD your God.

Love the LORD, all you godly ones! For the LORD protects those who are loyal to him, but he harshly punishes the arrogant. So be strong and courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD!

Do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

If anyone does not love the Lord, that person is cursed. Our Lord, come!

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So I pulled a number of Scripture regarding loving God...

What was it/is it like to experience your "first love"? Do you have memories or thoughts of when that special person was always on your heart and mind?

You look forward to sharing your day...

You look forward to spending time...

You ponder what they are thinking of you...

You imagine what they like/enjoy while you are away...

You look for and know the things that will please them and cause a smile to burst forth....

Hmm.... How is your FIRST LOVE?