Fallen Heights

 

S – Revelation 2: 4 - 5

 

‘Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 5Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.’

 

O – This is a very clear and confronting communication to my heart from the Lord. I see that it brings home to me the accountability and serious aspect of my relationship and discipleship with Jesus. This is not the Jesus of Nazareth who is giving me this perspective, but the risen and ascended Lord of Lords. He sees this as a serious issue to hold against me. There is a love scale in my connection and commitment that can diminish; there is a height that I can also fall from. This height is a measurement and expression of my love and zeal for the things and values of the Kingdom. I observe that I can fall from this awareness to a far lower place and level. It requires an addressing and action from me. To see it as serious and to repent And to do something about it. A doing again of the actions that was so reflective and responsive when love was exciting and enthusiastic. Then there is the consequence of not addressing this state, the Lord will intervene with serious action.

 

A - This is such a sobering communication for me. I find it so easy to become adjusted and desensitized to a diminishing love and devotion level that I don’t recognize it. It is though it can become acceptable to believe that it is OK and doesn’t require my attention or urgency. Yet I need to be aware of my decline and where compromise has come into my expression and relationship. Rather than my compromise and acceptance I need to repent and remember and do the things that were such a prominent part of my Christian life and devotion. I need to remember that the Lord sees this as a serious and significant situation. If I continue in neglect and denial it will disqualify me from being used in the purposes of God.

 

 

P – Lord this is a sobering message to my heart. I choose to repent and remember from where I have fallen, I choose to repent of those things that I do not do now that I used to do as first responses and desires as part of a first love relationship. Lord I ask that Holy Spirit will continually bring these issues and convictions before me for my response and rectification.