February 11 Evening Devotional | Return to Your First Love | Morning & Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, February 11 | “Thou hast left thy first love.” —Revelation 2:4

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Revelation 2:1-7

“Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

Ever to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw the Lord, lost our burden, received the roll of promise, rejoiced in full salvation, and went on our way in peace. It was spring time in the soul; the winter was past. The mutterings of Sinai’s thunders were hushed; the flashings of its lightnings were no more perceived; God was beheld as reconciled; the law threatened no vengeance, justice demanded no punishment.

Then the flowers appeared in our heart; hope, love, peace, and patience sprung from the sod; the hyacinth of repentance, the snowdrop of pure holiness, the crocus of golden faith, the daffodil of early love, all decked the garden of the soul. The time of the singing of birds was come and we rejoiced with thanksgiving. We magnified the holy name of our forgiving God, and our resolve was, “Lord, I am yours, wholly yours; all I am, and all I have, I would devote to you. You have bought me with your blood — let me spend myself and be spent in your service. In life and in death let me be consecrated to you.”

How have we kept this resolve? Our conversion love burned with a holy flame of devotedness to Jesus — is it the same now? Might not Jesus well say to us, “I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love”? Alas, it is but little we have done for our Master’s glory!
Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer’s glow and bloom with sacred flowers. We give to God pence when he deserves pounds, more than that, deserves our heart’s blood to be coined in the service of his church and of his truth.

But shall we continue thus? Oh Lord, after you have so richly blessed us, shall we be ungrateful and become indifferent to your good cause and work? Oh, quicken us that we may return to our first love, and do our first works! Send us a genial spring, Oh Sun of Righteousness.

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