Have you left your first love?

Rev. 2:4-7 (ESV)

 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

 Jesus is having something against those believers who have left their first love for Him. In ESV the scripture goes like this- You have abandoned the love you had at first. Here the word abandoned means having been deserted or left. The word abandoned is used for things/stuff we leave for destruction, we do not repair those things. eg. A big old palace is left as abandoned. Old car is left as abandoned. You can imagine how the abandoned things look like. Abandoned things are broken and damaged and rusted, without paint and messy.

 Same way if we have left our first love for the Lord, our heart's condition becomes like that. Heart is important. First love is from the whole heart. Let us check our heart today if we have left our first love. Nothing should take place of our first love except the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen