Renewal of Your First Love
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In our third devotional on seeking renewal from our good and loving God, today we’re going to look at what it means to have a renewal of our first love. What, who we love first, makes all the difference in how we spend our days, and how we spend our moments. And unless God is our first love, the one we’re giving all of our hearts to, life will always feel out of balance, and lacking the fullness of fulfillment. May God guide us to a deeper love of him today as we open our hearts and hands to meet with him.
Our Scripture for today comes from Revelation 2:4, and today's worship is First Love by Josie Buchanan.
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As you go about your day today, try and notice what or who has your heart. For today, don’t try and change anything, just simply be aware. Awareness of where our passion lies by looking at our time, talent, and treasure, is the first and sometimes biggest step towards transformation and renewal.
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| 0:00.0 | In our third episode on seeking renewal from our good and loving God, today we're going |
| 0:09.8 | to look at what it means to have the renewal of our first love. |
| 0:14.1 | Who we love first makes all the difference and how we spend our days, and how we spend our |
| 0:19.1 | moments. And unless God is our first love, the one we're |
| 0:23.0 | giving all our hearts to, life will always feel out of balance and lacking the fullness of fulfillment. |
| 0:29.1 | May God guide us to a deeper love of Him today as we open our hearts and hands to meet with |
| 0:34.2 | him. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | Thank you. hands to meet with him. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Out of God's great desire to be truly loved by his people, we have been given the gift of free will to choose who and what we give |
| 0:50.3 | our affections to. God, knowing full well that not all of us would choose to love him, |
| 0:56.4 | still created us out of his longing for close relationship with us. |
| 1:01.0 | You see, so great is our Heavenly Father's desire for relationship with us |
| 1:06.0 | that he suffers as he watches his children choose to love people, |
| 1:10.1 | ideas, possessions that will never fully love |
| 1:13.6 | us in return. So great is his love for us that he responds to our sin of idolatry with grace |
| 1:20.3 | and mercy every single time. And so vast is his affection for us that he sent his only son |
| 1:27.4 | so that we might be restored |
| 1:29.1 | to close relationship with our Heavenly Father once again. |
| 1:33.4 | But still we choose to love things other than God. |
| 1:36.7 | Still we seek out satisfaction and love from creation rather than the Creator. |
| 1:42.0 | Still we choose to place our hope and affections in the world instead |
| 1:45.7 | of in God. If we live the life God intends for us, the only fulfilling life possible, |
| 1:51.7 | we need a renewal of our first love. Thousands of years ago, the Church and Ephesus was much |
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