“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.” Revelation 2:4
Jesus starts to talk to John telling him things of the present and of the future. The beginning of His talk He talks about seven churches. The first is the church of Ephesus.
He gives them praise for their hard work and perseverance and stand against wicked people. They would make sure that anyone who claimed to be an apostle was actually one.
Then the hard news hits. He gives them the bad news that they have forsaken their first love. What is this first love? It is the love they had for God when they first started following Jesus.
How can someone lose that first love while still claiming to be a Christian? They know the words to speak; they attend church every time the doors are open; they wear a Christian t-shirt; and for all practical purposes they sounded like a good Christian.
Yet, in spite of all these good things they are doing, they do not have a true relationship with Jesus. There is no time spent in the Bible or in prayer or in true worship. They have lost their first love.
Think about a couple who are getting ready to get married in a few months. They cannot stand being away from each other. They know each others thoughts, likes and desires. Each one is their first love.
Later, too often, in the marriage the love dwindles done and their first love is lost. Many end up getting divorced because they are no longer in love with each other.
This same type of love can be found in your walk with Jesus. The church of Ephesus started with a bang, but then fizzled out.
Look at your own life. What gets you excited? What do you love to talk about? What is on the forefront of your mind?
Is the answer to all of these questions Jesus? Is your focus on God and His kingdom? Or is it on yourself and your own little kingdom?
Today, if you have lost your first love with Jesus, seek Him and get it back. If you have not lost that first love, keep it going. Stay in touch with Jesus all day, every day. Keep Him and His kingdom in the front of your mind and all that you do. May God not be able to say the same things to you as He did to the church of Ephesus.
I pray that today God will help you to renew your love for Him; that God will draw you closer to Him than ever before; that you will get excited to talk with and about Jesus; and that God will fill you with His joy in knowing Him.
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One statement is enough for a mature and evolved spirit to understand the immortal importance of a sentence, of a written line, due to its indestructible invaluable content that teaches how the spirit should act to develop the inner God, or to turn into Spirit and Truth, or to realise in it the teachings of the Bible – YOU ARE GODS.
There are people who devour books, searching for religions, sects and banners, listening to the incarnate and the discarnate, but they do not change inwardly and do not really blossom… They are like mediocrity that goes around the PERFECTION, without ever reaching it…
The Exemplary Word warned these people, by saying: “The Kingdom of God is inside each one, it does not come with external signs.”
Therefore, those who do not know how to LOOK FOR THEMSELVES, and have not FOUND THEMSELVES yet, will have to search high and low, hovering unhappily, in the kingdom of emptiness and painful doubts.
An old initiatic saying teaches: “The good disciple awaits doing good.”
The Exemplary Word also taught: “Upon your patience you shall build your souls.”
These abstracts say to the immature, to those empty spirits: “Learn how to run to your inner self, because it is there that God has placed His Divine Virtues, which, when blossomed, will make you a TOTAL ONE, GOD IN GOD, BECAUSE NO ONE WILL BE CHILD OF GOD ETERNALLY.”
However, let us remember these wise words: “One word to those who understand it is worth a whole speech to those who do not understand it.”
All the best. With love, Neil.
Thank you. Without the Spirit of God’s Holy Spirit guiding and teaching us we can neither know nor understand anything of God and His Word.
Hi.
When the so-called Initiatic Wisdom, or Science of the Mysteries, or Science of the Oracles instructs men to know themselves, so that then they may get to know the Universe and the Gods, it instructs nothing but to acknowledge that everything emanates from the ONE ORIGIN, that IN HIM everything moves and everything achieves the purpose..
Thousands of years later, when Jesus reaffirmed the ‘YOU ARE GODS’, He said nothing but the same truth. However, with the corruption of the Sublime Doctrine of the Path, these and other FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS have been forgotten, buried under the debris of all sorts of simulations and machinations, seriously harmful to people’s spiritual progress.
To say that all religions are good is the same as to purposefully insult the TRUTH. No DIVINE OR FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH depends on human opinion in order to be. The TRUTH is good and the mistakes of religion fabricators will have to burst against it.
Morals, Love, Revelation, Wisdom and Virtue are the positive factors that will make the Inner Christ of the spirit blossom. Pocket, Stomach, Sex, Pride and Selfishness are the factors that, used negatively, shall lead the spirit to weeping and grinding of teeth.
A new cyclical-evolutionary time is coming to Humanity; but the Law of God and the Divine Model Christ will see those who did wrong, grieving their guilt, because they will not go through any changes.
All the best. With love, Neil.