Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth warns us about a spiritual drift we can experience.

There's a simplicity and a purity about devotion to Christ that many times we leave behind

as we get more sophisticated in the faith, and we know more, and we're doing more.

There's a whole lot of the Christian life you can keep maintaining and leave Jesus way behind.

This is the Reviber Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest. For August 11th, 2023, I'm Danne Gresh.

When Jesus addresses various churches in the first chapters of Revelation, he offers a simple message,

return to your first love.

Yesterday, Nancy described why that sentence is so important, and she'll help us maintain that focus today in the series, Your First Love Relationship. Here's Nancy. Some of you may remember

the song that Steve Green has sung over the years called The Mission. And I love that couplet

in the chorus. It says, to love the Lord our God is the heartbeat of our mission.

The spring from which our service overflows. That is a great line. And I think that's really what Jesus is saying to the church in Ephesus.

He's saying, look, you have all the service, you have all the activity, you have all the busyness, but you're missing

the pulse. You're missing the heartbeat. You're missing the spring from which your service is

supposed to overflow. To love the Lord our God, that's the heartbeat of our mission. It's the spring

out of which our service should overflow. And so Jesus said in Revelation chapter 2, and let me just pick up here where we left off

in the last session, to the angel of the church in Ephesus write, the words of him who holds

the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lamp stands, I know your

works, your toil, exhausting, backbreaking labor, your patient

endurance, your triumphant fortitude in the face of persecution. You have endured, you have persevered,

and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles

and are not, and found them to be false.

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