A Love Worthy Of Our Awe

Today I would like to speak on the wonders and awe of God. When we first meet the Lord and fall in love with him, everything we learn and time spent with him is wondrous because he is so awesome but then …. 

But then … life happens. 

This morning I was thinking back to a time I moved out to California. My friend and I drove down the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. There were many beautiful sights to see but something about the oceanfront and the mountains captured my awe. No matter how many I saw, every scenery was majestic and worthy of another awe! People and places can still create a wonder in our lives but what happens when the Lord begins to feel stale and not so wondrous anymore? We soon forget the benefits and the blessed promises as we walk with him. 

We have become a people of quick satisfaction and if something or someone no longer does it for us, we wish to move on until we are caught up in awesomeness again. I think somewhere deep in the heart of those who are extremely wealthy feel a void, its like they can purchase anything in the world and somewhere along the way they lose their wonder. Beloved, there is value in having to search for something we see desirable that we wish to have in our lives. Please, don’t believe otherwise. 

If we lived life being served everything we wanted on a gold platter, we would soon forget it wasn’t just an ordinary plate but solid gold. We would soon take for granted we had servants at our beck and call. In Revelation 2:4, the Lord is speaking to the church in Ephesus. The people did everything right by the book but they no longer held their first love nor did they feel the awe of the God that they diligently served. 

So what happens when a love relationship begins to grow stale? Simply put, people drift that were once close. When Jesus taught, he spoke many sermons on keeping the flame burning, keeping him as our first love and the renewing of mind. Surely, things either progress or deflate in the deep recesses of our mind, amen? It is where future actions begin to take shape. 

How do we return back to our first love? We have to remember what it was like back then and how they made us feel. As we do, we may see a deep contrast of where we used to be to where we are today. Okay, makes sense right? So how do we close the gap? By creating the “new.” A new revelation accompanied by a new change. Oftentimes, we pray for things to evolve and yet refuse to see any need for change. We will never see progress unless we make the first step of change. Jesus told the church to “return back to their first love” and the act of returning is taking steps back while renewing your mind and heart forward. There was a reason we fell in love with God and we need to capture that reason again. 

When we think about the things we love to do in life we have a tendency to keep on doing them. I love to write, so I keep on writing, lol and you have things you love doing as well. When we seem to have lost our way and no longer feel the awe of God, he is trying to convey something to you. He doesn’t want you to walk with him out of obligation rather because of desire. It’s no wonder Jesus often refers to the kingdom of God and those who enter must become as a child. Why? Because children see and view life differently than adults. They find wonder in the stars and joy in holding a puppy. They fall and quickly get up and are laughing the next moment. 

If we have lost the feeling of awe for Jesus, begin a day with a strong resolve. You will keep on keeping on until you find that one very special pearl in your life. Now this isn’t to say we won’t go through valleys in our relationship we do. That will never ever change but how we perceive God in the midst of our sufferings can change and no weapon formed against us will alter our relationship and perception of him. We must look back and remember how it felt to fall in love and how everything we saw made us think of that person. Every color in the world painted for us a beautiful image in our minds of the one we love. 

In the Song of Solomon 3:4,It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 

We are promised eternity with the King and surely we will never grow weary nor see his loving presence as something old and becoming stale. Every moment will be a delight a new joy coming again and again. Even though we have troubles in life, Jesus is the same today as He will be tomorrow and is new day after day. He is an evergreen love that continually grows despite the weather patterns of life. Today, ask him to give you a new set of spiritual eyes to see him in ways that you never saw him before. New vision, new heart as you return back to your first love … 

By ~ Linda Rose 🧚🏼‍♀️