You love me with an unspeakable love. A love that is limitless and infinite. Perfect. Flawless.
You set your sights on me and made it your life’s work to rescue and redeem me. You always put me before yourself. You look at me with fire in your eyes but pull me close in an embrace of tenderness and mercy. When I am with you I always feel cherished. I am safe in your arms. With you in my life, I lack nothing…yet…
I have not always been faithful to you. There are times when I question your intentions and doubt the promises you have made…even though you have proven yourself more than trustworthy! I have strayed in my affections. I have sought pleasure and satisfaction in things other than in you. I have wandered into places that you have deemed out of bounds for me – not because you want to control me but because you want to protect me. I have put things like my comfort, my desires, my wants, my goals, above your perfect provision and peace. I have forgotten where I came from, the height from which I have fallen; and I have allowed pride to grow where there is only room for gratitude. I have allowed self pity to choke out true joy.
I have forsaken my first love…
Jesus, forgive me! I love you, I adore you, I need you!
I am nothing without you!
I accept no substitutes or cheap imitations!
I am spoken for.
My life is a love song for you, Jesus…
“…And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge…” Ephesians 3 17-19
“We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first…” Revelation 2:4-5
