Return to Your First Love

"Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first."   Revelation 2:4-5

The theme at our church this year is: "Return to your first love." We have to remember that our love relationship with God is first and foremost. For those of us who have been Christians for awhile, it is easy to allow many other things to interfere with the simplicity of our love for God and His love for us. We get caught up in 'church' and all the activities that go along with being a recognizable Christian.
    Can we return to our first love? When we came to Christ, it was as a little child. We needed someone to help us and he stretched out his hand and picked us up. He hugged us, comforted us and let us know that we were so important to him that he would drop everything just to spend time with us. But as we became more mature, we stopped going to him. We may have been too busy doing the 'stuff' that we were supposed to do: You know, Christian stuff.
    If we are to return to our first love, we have to remember what it was like then. I remember when I first came to know Jesus. Faith was simple. I remember laying out in the back yard on a warm summer night shortly after I had given my life to him. I said, "God, would you make the wind blow?" And he did. That sounds foolish, but didn't Jesus say that God uses the foolish things to confound the wise? Maybe I have become a little too wise. Maybe I should start asking God those simple, foolish questions again.
    It seems like this involves repentance. Why don't all of us go back to God, jump into his arms, and ask him to forgive us for being too involved in Christian stuff to spend time with him? Why don't we tell him we love him? Why don't we return to that first love and live our lives right there? He's waiting..