You Have Left Your First Love.

     But this I have against you, that you have left your first love.
                              Revelation 2:4 NASB

     One can be doing everything that a Christian should be doing, even love what they are doing, but still miss it.
     Pastors can be in love with their preaching, teachers can be in love with their teaching, theologians can be consumed with theology. An individual may have a passion for doing good, he or she may pour themselves out in the service of others.
     Others may be faithful in church, they may be there every service, take part in the worship, listen to the message, be on a prayer team, serve as a deacon, but only participate out of habit, even drudgery.
     What is missing is the passionate love for Jesus that motivates the child of God. Without that passion for Christ motivating us, our actions are empty, mere forms, no matter how much we enjoy them. They are mere idols, taking the place in our hearts that belongs to Christ.
     If this is you, repent and do the deeds you did at first, when all that mattered was Jesus (Rev 2:5).