Genesis 1:1 NKJV
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Hello, Luvs!
'The Beginning' title crossed my mind some time last week. (draft from 3/12/13 I started) Last night while at work, that title and Get Excited Again stayed in my mind. I didn't know which one to use, but I realized both go well along with what I'm going to write about.
The Beginning of relationships was the main focus I wanted to revolve around. As we all know, when we first enter into a relationship, we're on cloud nine! We spend all of our time talking this new person in our life; we are with them every minute we have free; we think and dream about them all the time. Basically, no one else seems to exist or matter at this stage. We desert our friends and family and rarely want to go to work. It's just you and this new luv of your life.
For those of us who KNOW the Lord and have been reconciled back to Him, I believe we all can remember almost for verbatim exactly how we felt when finally accepted Christ as our Lord & Savior! That fire and desire we had to live for Him and please Him! We were EXCITED about the things of the Lord! We LOVED reading our Bible regularly, loved going to church regularly and just fellowshipping with other brothers & sisters. When the Lord started sharing and speaking to us, we'd have this glimmer of awe within us as tho we were the first ones He revealed Himself to or the first person He'd ever spoken to.
Psalms 100:1-3 NLT
"Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth!
Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy. Acknowledge that the L ord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture."
Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy. Acknowledge that the L ord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture."
When we're baby saint's, we're supposed to eat baby food. We strongly need to be spiritually guarded. This is also a time when the Lord's grace seems to never end. When you're a baby and don't know any better, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. A lot of the times we can become full of ourselves with this new knowledge we've discovered.
Outspoken actor and fellow Christian, Kirk Cameron instantly came to my mind when I was thinking about that last statement. When he first got saved, he started acting differently on the set of the hit show, Growing Pains. He wanted to change some of the script writing regarding his character; he distanced himself from his castmates. He didn't even invite his castmates to his wedding. There was definitely a change in him. He was a baby saint. He was still learning. He knew what the Bible said and took it literally. Which is what we are to do, but we NEED WISDOM & UNDERSTANDING behind it.
Now, back to the beginning of our personal relationships. Say after the first three months, maybe six, things start to slow down. Maybe you aren't having those long, late night talks as often as you used to. Maybe you can't meet up for lunch everyday anymore. Maybe you can only see each other on weekends now because of work, school or other obligations. When you two finally get that one-on-one time, the excitement and thrill seems to have died. You don't joke and play around the same; you don't have much to say to one another during dinner. It seems already, the relationship has become stagnant...
We can and do become stagnant in our walk with Christ. We go from baby saints to maturing in the Lord to becoming seasoned. We have been hit with trials n storms back-to-back. We've probably been put through the ringer our first year in Christ. Maybe we were whooped so bad spiritually, we started losing focus, desire, and all hope. We stopped praying as often as we did. We only read our Bible whenever it felt relevant. We start attending church and church functions less and less..
We have to go back to that memory, that feeling of excitement we had in the beginning of this new and exciting chapter in our lives! We need the Holy Spirit to revive in us what's been slowly starting to slip away. We need to get excited about the Lord again and the things concerning Him! Remember when you couldn't stop talking about Him and sharing all the things He'd done for you and how much he loves you. We need to get refocused and not let the light that's within us die!
As far as our newly personal relationship, we need to do and treat it the same way we're supposed to treat our relationship with God, but only secondary. No communication equals no relationship. No matter how busy life gets and it will, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS COMMUNICATE & MAKE THE TIME FOR ONE ANOTHER! The longer we put off not talking and making time for our special loves, the harder it'll be to rekindle what once was so beautiful. I'm not saying it can't be done, it just makes the process much harder.
Thank God for always being there, waiting with opens arm to accept us once again! His love is never-ending and He never leaves nor forsakes us! We may leave and forsake Him, but He's so merciful and so forgiving that after we get back on track and repent to Him, His love is still the same as it was the day before.
Lamentations 3:23 NLT
"Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning."
2 Peter 3:9 NLT
"The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent."
James 5:19-20 NKJV
"Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins."
Get back to THE BEGINNINGS AND GET EXCITED AGAIN!!!
BE BLESSED & ENCOURAGED IN THE LORD TODAY! ~Raven J. XOXO
BE BLESSED & ENCOURAGED IN THE LORD TODAY! ~Raven J. XOXO
