I remember the day my baby girl was born. What a feeling I had when I held her in my arms the first time. I felt immediate love and attachment for this helpless little package God had given me. She needed constant care which I was glad to give.
As she grew I remember coming home from work exhausted but longing to see my little girl. It seemed to make me forget all other problems. When I saw her she would crawl up in my lap and put her little head on my shoulder and fall asleep, it gave me such a feeling of joy. As she got a little older, I would come home and she literally would jump into my arms and hug me and tell me I love you daddy and squeeze me so hard and kiss my cheek. There was no feeling could compare to that. She wanted to do everything with her daddy, she was a daddy's little girl and I loved it.
There came a day she grew up and things began to take daddy's little girl away. She began having other desires and daddy was no longer first place in her life. That hurt my heart so much because I longed for my little girl back. Those hugs those kisses even to hear I love you faded, things were no longer the same.
I still loved her with all my heart but I had become replaced by worldly interest. What I would have given to have that first love back, but I realized things would never be the same again even though I longed for it.
I was reading the Bible and run across this scripture in "Deuteronomy 6:5" which says, You shall "love" the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Even though this was the first commandment, I saw it as a longing desire from a loving Father. Just as I desired the love I once had with my child, I saw this same longing heart from a loving God.
When we first come to God, we learn to love Him, and show our love to Him. We wanted to learn all we could about Him, and we wanted to talk to Him constantly, we desired to please Him. What's more God loved us spending that time with Him and truly desired it. Unfortunately over time we let things creep into our lives and take our time away from Him. I realized even though He is a powerful and great God, He can be easily hurt by us, when He is no longer first place.
God desires that first love again, He even made a plea for it when He spoke to the church in Ephesus in the book of Revelation chapter 2 . He said, Never the less I have this against you, you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, repent and do the first works.
In other words He is saying, come back and show Me the love you had for Me when you first came to Me.
There could only be one way to repair this broken heart of our Father, that is to go back and show Him true love. Make Him #1 once again.
"God is patiently waiting"
BUTTERFLY KISSES
As she grew I remember coming home from work exhausted but longing to see my little girl. It seemed to make me forget all other problems. When I saw her she would crawl up in my lap and put her little head on my shoulder and fall asleep, it gave me such a feeling of joy. As she got a little older, I would come home and she literally would jump into my arms and hug me and tell me I love you daddy and squeeze me so hard and kiss my cheek. There was no feeling could compare to that. She wanted to do everything with her daddy, she was a daddy's little girl and I loved it.
There came a day she grew up and things began to take daddy's little girl away. She began having other desires and daddy was no longer first place in her life. That hurt my heart so much because I longed for my little girl back. Those hugs those kisses even to hear I love you faded, things were no longer the same.
I still loved her with all my heart but I had become replaced by worldly interest. What I would have given to have that first love back, but I realized things would never be the same again even though I longed for it.
I was reading the Bible and run across this scripture in "Deuteronomy 6:5" which says, You shall "love" the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Even though this was the first commandment, I saw it as a longing desire from a loving Father. Just as I desired the love I once had with my child, I saw this same longing heart from a loving God.
When we first come to God, we learn to love Him, and show our love to Him. We wanted to learn all we could about Him, and we wanted to talk to Him constantly, we desired to please Him. What's more God loved us spending that time with Him and truly desired it. Unfortunately over time we let things creep into our lives and take our time away from Him. I realized even though He is a powerful and great God, He can be easily hurt by us, when He is no longer first place.
God desires that first love again, He even made a plea for it when He spoke to the church in Ephesus in the book of Revelation chapter 2 . He said, Never the less I have this against you, you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, repent and do the first works.
In other words He is saying, come back and show Me the love you had for Me when you first came to Me.
There could only be one way to repair this broken heart of our Father, that is to go back and show Him true love. Make Him #1 once again.
"God is patiently waiting"
BUTTERFLY KISSES
