Love is the thing that defines us. It is love that everyone is trying to find. Sometimes it flees our hands and hearts. Sometimes it plants itself in the heart and stays… it plants itself there. The heart is a garden where good things can grow but with our sinful nature most of the time what the heart grows is evil things. Or at least until that person lets Jesus into their heart. Then the Holy Spirit starts weeding out the evilness of the heart. And He plants the love of God there.
It is our job to water that love. How? By reading the Word of God (the Holy Bible) on a daily basis. By talking to God our Creator through prayer. He created each and every person for a reason – a purpose, to spread His love here on earth. He knew beforehand which ones would say yes to their purpose and those who would say no.
The church today is a loveless church. (Revelation 2:1-7) The church does works and labor for their Savior, but they have left Him – their first love. They must repent and do the first works. What are these first works? The commandments that Jesus Christ had given His church.
The first commandment was to love the Lord God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark12:29-31). The second was to love your neighbor as you love yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. We must go back to loving God and others, including self.
The church today is also a lukewarm church (Revelation 3:14-22). Some are following Jesus and are red-hot. Some are very cold; because of their man-made traditions they aren’t following God’s leading. Then there are some who are in between; these are they who will be spewed out of Jesus’ mouth. The Lord God hates these because they are double-minded. They want God but they are happy in their comfort zone. They don’t want to move in God’s leading. They say yes but then don’t do what He says to do. These are the ones who are wretched inside. Jesus tries to heal, counsel, and clothe them. He comes to dine with them. He did not leave them. They did not stay with Him.
We need to return to our first love – Jesus Christ who died for us because He loved us first (1 John 4:19). He draws us to Him to learn to love Him and no other. We must return to our first love and follow Him. We must follow our first love to bring Heaven to Earth and to spread about His love to others. Then once we passed from this earth, we follow our first love to our heavenly home to spend eternity with Him.
To those who would repent, overcome, and return to their first love – Jesus, He grants to sit with Him on HIs throne. We will also receive from Him the ability to eat form the tree of life which is in the midst of the Garden of God for all eternity.