He may not chronologically be our first love, but He should be the most important love in your life. Your thought life is crucial too. It’s supposed to include Him at all times.
Revelation 2:2-5 – Amplified Bible
Please read Revelation 2:2-5
2 ‘I know [b]your deeds and your toil, and your patient endurance, and that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and have tested and critically appraised those who call themselves apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives, of Christ), and [in fact] are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors; 3 and [I know that] you [who believe] are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name’s sake, and that you have not grown weary [of being faithful to the truth].
4 But I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me]. 5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place—unless you repent.
He knows what we do, how we struggle, how we endure, how we are tested. Even through all of that, we are to remain in Him, loving Him, focused on Him.
It’s really about your focus, your thoughts. Who do you talk to all day? Yourself, someone else, or prayerfully Him? Seek God’s will, which a lot of the time is just to love Jesus, to know Jesus, to remain in Jesus.
Thus studying and praying are both incredibly beneficial.
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