"You know you've forgotten your first love when you are more excited about what God is doing in you and through you instead of who God is to you." - Josh Cole
First, stop and let that sink in. Do you ever get so wrapped up in what God is doing in you or what you can do for Him that you get forget why you are doing it in the first place? I do this ALL THE TIME. God speaks a word to me or brings a conformation and I am all of the sudden filled with this need to do something in order to make that word happen. If God says "Sarah, go live in Africa for 10 years and run an orphanage" I can already see myself getting so caught up in all the details. "Okay God in order to make that happen I need to come up with this amount of money. I need to train myself to teach children better, I need to..." you fill in the blank. I think it's so important to take the things that God tells us seriously, and to walk out in obedience if He calls us into something. But how often in our search to be obedient do we forget to take God with us and actually just start to do those things out of our own strength and strategy? I would say it's a pretty high percentage of the time. If God spoke that word over us, shouldn't we believe enough of His character that He would also give the next step? That He would have strategy in how to raise money, in how to work with children, etc. Why in our pursuit to be obedient do we end up leaving God hanging? We lose the fact that it was HIS word to US and not just ours to fulfill and make happen.. If He gives us a promise it isn't our job to fulfill that. We need to stop forgetting who He is just to fulfill the promise He spoke over us. That will come in time because we know He is faithful. What we need to do is start remembering who He is to us and that He is the first one we fell in love with. If we do this, if we remember who He is to us. Why we love Him, Why we trust Him. Why He is good. If we focus on His character it is then that we will always remember our first love.
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