The Love Check (Daily Devotional)

Welcome back and thanks for tuning in. Welcome to living supernaturally, in this edition, we are actually doing a study on our spiritual health. We're looking at various factors that affect us spiritually and what we can do to make some corrections so we can thrive spiritually, which is the will of God for our lives. Today, we're going to look at one check or a test that shows us how we're doing spiritually and that check for that test is called the ‘love check’. This is what we read in Matthew chapter 22, verses 37 to 39, the Lord Jesus answering the scribe, He says, ‘you shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ So today, as we do this test, we can ask ourselves this question, has my love for God grown cold? Or is it passionate, or am I passionate about God, about His word, and is my love still passionate, red hot? The second question that we can ask is, has my love and compassion for people, for God's people, has it grown cold, has it diminished? In Revelation chapter two verses 4 and 5, the Lord Jesus when He is giving a report to the churches, He says this to church in verse four, ‘nevertheless, I have this against you, that you have left your first love.’ So, we might think this love, this emotion, this love for God, this adoration, is it a big thing, is it a big deal. Obviously to God, it matters it matters quite a bit where He says, that you have left your first love. In Revelation chapter two and verse five, He says, ‘remember therefore from where you have fallen.’ So today, if we feel, if we sense that our love has gone cold, there could be several reasons- it could be because of intentional sin, where we had planned and premeditated and done some things to cause grief in God's heart or it could be unintentional sin, maybe we've sinned and we've not got back, you have not confessed or repented. Or maybe there is prayerlessness in our hearts, maybe there is lack of fellowship with other believers. Now our love could have grown cold because of all these many reasons. But now we can get back. It's time to return to our first love. Shall we pray? Father, we thank you, Spirit of God, we thank you for speaking to us, if our love is strong may it be stronger. But if our love has grown cold, I pray that it will be stirred up and whatever has caused our love to grow cold, I pray that you would forgive, that we will repent and come back, return to our first love. We thank you, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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