When The Door Slams
The word of the Lord came to me: "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: "This is what the Lord says: " 'I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you love me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown. Jeremiah 2:2
Even when our hearts grow cold toward God and our devotion to Him weaken, His love remains steadfast. We may forget God, but He remembers us always.
God was concerned because the people of Judah had allowed their hearts to drift far from Him. In a powerful moment, God shared His heart with His people, recalling what it was like when they first began loving Him. God remembered how they had loved Him, as a new bride loves her husband, with excitement and enthusiasm for the future. God recalled the kindness they had expressed as they willingly followed Him wherever He led them. God reminded them of the love they once had for Him, so that the memory might rekindle feelings of devotion and their hearts might return to Him.
Think about this: If you do not guard your heart, you will grow cold in your love for Christ. A time may come when He approaches you and reminds you what your relationship was once like. Do you recollect the joy that saturated your life when you first became a Christian? Do you recall the youthful commitments you made to Him, pledging to do anything He told you to do? Do you remember the thrill you experience each time you came to understand a new dimension of His nature. Spiritual memory is important. You may not realize how far you have drifted from God until you compare it to the love you are expressing to Him now with that of earlier days.
God has not changed. He is the same Person you gave your heart to when you became a Christian (Mal. 3:6-7). If your love for God is not as intense as it once was, return to Him. He will restore the intimate fellowship you once shared with Him.
God 's divine power has given me all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called me by His own glory and virtue. Through these He has given me His very great and precious promises, so that through them I may be a partaker of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust (2Peter 1:3-4).
I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, not height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus my Lord (Romans 8:38-39).
Ask the Holy Spirit to search your heart and reveal any areas of unconfessed sin. Acknowledge these to the Lord and thank Him for His forgiveness.
("Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on me, a sinner"). Please, God, rescue me! Come quickly, Lord, and help me. "Thank you, think you, thank you through the power of the Holy Spirit".
Never Rest Ministries
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