Scripture: Revelation 2: 4-7
But I have this one thing against you. You do not love Me as you did at first. 5 Remember how you once loved Me. Be sorry for your sin and love Me again as you did at first. If you do not, I will come to you and take your light out of its place. I will do this unless you are sorry for your sin and turn from it. 6 But you have this: You hate what the Nicolaitans do. I hate what they do also. 7 You have ears! Then listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the fruit of the tree of life in the garden of God to everyone who has power and wins.’
Scripture Commentary:
Just as when a man and woman first fall in love, so also new believers at first rejoice in their newfound forgiveness. However, when we lose sight of the seriousness of sin, we begin to lose the thrill of our forgiveness.
In the first steps of our Christian life we may have had enthusiasm without knowledge. Do we now have knowledge without enthusiasm? Both are necessary if we are to keep our love for God intense and untarnished.
Continue to stir up your love for God.
For Jesus to “remove your lampstand from its place” would mean the church would cease to be an effective church. If, as believers, we don’t follow Jesus in the Christian way, our light will be dim or go out.
In fact, Jesus Himself will extinguish any light that does not fulfill its purpose. The church (and we as well) must repent our sins. Work for God must be motivated by love for God or it will not last.
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