The Renewal of Your First Love
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 19 September 2020
⏱️ 13 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 Jonathan David and Melissa Helser.
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| 0:00.0 | In our third episode 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 makes all the difference in how we spend our days |
| 0:19.1 | and how we spend our moments. And unless God is our first love, the one we're giving all of |
| 0:26.2 | our hearts to, life will always feel out of balance and lacking the fullness of |
| 0:32.4 | fulfillment. |
| 0:33.0 | May God guide us to a deeper love of him today |
| 0:37.0 | as we open our hearts and hands to meet with him. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Revelation 2, verse 4, where scripture scripture says but I have this against you that you have |
| 1:07.9 | abandoned the love you had at first. Out of God's great desire to be truly loved by his people, we have been given |
| 1:19.6 | the gift of free will to choose who and what we will give our affections to. |
| 1:25.0 | God knowing full well that not all of us would choose to love him still created us out of his longing for close relationship with us. |
| 1:37.0 | You see, so great is our Heavenly Father's desire for relationship with us, that he suffers as he watches his children choose to love |
| 1:46.7 | people, ideas, and possessions that will never fully love us in return. |
| 1:55.0 | So great is his love for us that he responds to our sin of idolatry |
| 2:00.7 | with grace and mercy every single time. |
| 2:04.0 | And so vast is his affection for us, |
| 2:08.0 | that he sent his only son |
| 2:10.0 | so that we might be restored |
| 2:12.0 | to close relationship with our Heavenly Father once again. |
| 2:17.0 | But still, we choose to love things other than God. |
| 2:21.0 | Still we seek out satisfaction and love from creation rather than the Creator. |
| 2:27.7 | Still we choose to place our hope and affections in the world instead of in God. |
| 2:35.0 | If we are to live the life that God intends for us, |
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