December 2-First Love

It’s Saturday and I’m in Mexico today. I’ve had a limonada and a taco and I feel acclimated. I’ve got to buy Cooper some boots today because he has out grown his. Doesn’t it amaze you how quickly kids do that? Both physically and mentally as long as they as healthy, they are growing quickly. And I think they may learn faster than they outgrow their shoes! 


And then, we grow up. And of course the physical growing slows way down. But that mental and spiritual growing we want to see keep happening? Those things that require more and more effort from us as we continue to age and get busier lives? Somehow, we lose our focus, our intensity and that single-mindedness we had as children. That “this thing in front of me is the most important” mental awareness that permits absorption and fast growth to occur. 


“You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.”

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭2:3-5a‬ ‭NIV‬‬


Jesús is talking to Christians that have done many good things, and are doing good things, but they just don’t have the passion they did have—that energy and drive that leads them to forsake everything for the call. Mercy me...That’s strong stuff he’s saying to us there. 


Today, reassess. How’s your first love for the Savior? Are you still growing? Or have you lost that passion? If you have, Jesús says “Repent” or the very next part of that verse says “If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.” Revelation‬ ‭2:5‬b NIV‬‬. I don’t know about you, but I want my lamp stand trimmed and ready—not removed. Let’s make this first love day and get that nailed down! What do you say?

Love you dear one,

Pam (aka Pa-ma-la) from Mexico. 


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