Comments on: the first church of the honeymoon http://souljunk.com/2007/06/14/the-first-church-of-the-honeymoon/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:27:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Steve http://souljunk.com/2007/06/14/the-first-church-of-the-honeymoon/#comment-3946 Steve Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:22:26 +0000 http://souljunk.com/2007/06/14/the-first-church-of-the-honeymoon/#comment-3946 Thanks for reminding me that it's not that we initially loved God, but that He first Loved Us. My weakness become strength as I realize that each area I can't do on my own results in dependence on Him. Open wide my door, my Lord. Thanks for reminding me that it’s not that we initially loved God, but that He first Loved Us. My weakness become strength as I realize that each area I can’t do on my own results in dependence on Him.

Open wide my door, my Lord.

]]> By: Glen Galaxy http://souljunk.com/2007/06/14/the-first-church-of-the-honeymoon/#comment-3936 Glen Galaxy Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:21:57 +0000 http://souljunk.com/2007/06/14/the-first-church-of-the-honeymoon/#comment-3936 If the relationship is depending in any way on us generating love for God, it will fail (or at least grow cold). Jesus is so specific that we <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john 15.1-17;&version=31;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">dwell</a> in his <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1john 4.7-19;&version=31;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">love</a>. As you can see from people's responses, whenever the passion and fire of our love is brought into question - we always go back to the point where we first fell in love with God. This is good! The only problem is where we think we're supposed to work up the same feelings we had back then. As if God didn't really hope for us to progress in relationship with him and the best we could do is live in conversion nostalgia! What God's really directing us to is our first love - which is actually his <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans 5.5-10;&version=31;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">love</a> for us. Dwelling in that love will never allow you to grow complacent. And complacency is a symptom, not a judgment - so if you feel any degree of complacency or coldness or numbness, start thanking God for the depth of his love towards you - and don't let go of that! There is nothing so close to Father's heart as one of his children asking sincerely to be able to dwell in his love. If the relationship is depending in any way on us generating love for God, it will fail (or at least grow cold). Jesus is so specific that we dwell in his love.

As you can see from people’s responses, whenever the passion and fire of our love is brought into question - we always go back to the point where we first fell in love with God. This is good! The only problem is where we think we’re supposed to work up the same feelings we had back then. As if God didn’t really hope for us to progress in relationship with him and the best we could do is live in conversion nostalgia!

What God’s really directing us to is our first love - which is actually his love for us. Dwelling in that love will never allow you to grow complacent. And complacency is a symptom, not a judgment - so if you feel any degree of complacency or coldness or numbness, start thanking God for the depth of his love towards you - and don’t let go of that! There is nothing so close to Father’s heart as one of his children asking sincerely to be able to dwell in his love.

]]> By: Steve http://souljunk.com/2007/06/14/the-first-church-of-the-honeymoon/#comment-3932 Steve Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:26:05 +0000 http://souljunk.com/2007/06/14/the-first-church-of-the-honeymoon/#comment-3932 The easy part for me seems to be my heart getting complacent. Do you have any personal experiences or things God has taught you that would help a brother in the areas of falling and staying in love with God? The easy part for me seems to be my heart getting complacent. Do you have any personal experiences or things God has taught you that would help a brother in the areas of falling and staying in love with God?

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