My First Love

If you were to question the most successful and confident people in the world, and those who are heavily down trodden with a deep seated feeling of failure, you will find that their greatest commonality is their core human need for love and purpose.

There is something that sets a fire behind a person’s eyes, when they have found their greatest love and their wildest passion. If we’re honest, behind all our actions and pursuits, is the search for a wholesome love (whether romantically, friendships or interests) and a life-giving purpose. In a big way, I have gotten to do what I love and have found exceeding purpose behind writing about my interests and many of your interests, tasty food, homey decor, growing gardens and so much more. But there is something, that beside those wonderful gifts, has been the greatest gift to me, the gift I think every human heart truly yearns for, and I want to share that with you today.

That is, my First Love.

I’ll be honest in saying that, making God my first love did not happen overnight. Just like any human, a desire for worldly things often consumed my thoughts, but fortunately God brought me through a process that completely shifted my priorities.

When I look back at my journey and all the things that only God’s grace could have brought me through, I am eternally grateful. It is this undeserving grace that made me fall deeper in love with God. In His Word, He commands me to love Him with all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind, but I had to learn to let go of my idols and my selfish desires.

It is through His grace and by His strength, that I have now reached a point where I can truly say that God is my first love. Without hesitation, I place Him above family and friends, material possessions, and earthly desires. I no longer make excuses to avoid praying or reading His word. Now, being in God’s presence and worshipping is more natural, and I live for those moments with Him.

As I draw closer to him, I get a better understanding of His will for my life, and I seek to align my thoughts, words, and actions with His will. I live to honor God, although it is not always easy, but each day He renews a right spirit within me. Especially in the midst of all the chaos in today’s world, God is my safe place, and I am committed to a spirit-filled relationship with Him.

Although there are so many reasons, that God is my first love, above all it’s His love for me, with which He loved me first that draws me in. Even while I was lost in sin, with no regard for Him, He loved me enough to give me a second chance through salvation. His faithfulness towards me is never-ending, so without hesitation, I now live to give Him the glory and honor that He truly deserves as my top priority.

In all things, He is more and gives more. And I want to encourage you with things that are familiar to you. Because we can see His hand in everything.

 He furnishes a home of eternal beauty for us, He provides us with what our sickened souls need through His healing love, He commands us in our travels (even next door) to take His Word to people and places where it will far outlast our existence. Through His Word He gives us the nutrition and strength to carry through a fallen world and there in the end, all will see those who were like flowers planted in His garden, who bloomed only through His love for them, and out of sincere gratefulness, their love for Him.

In that lies my greatest love and my deepest purpose, in Christ. He calls you and me each day, to choose Him above and before all things. I invite you to reflect with me, and seek His face, that we might know Him and worship Him, as He deserves.