Subject: Why do we lose our “first love” for God?

Learning to see our need for the Lord
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Why do we lose our “first love” for God?

Learning to see our need for the Lord

 

When a person becomes a Christian, he experiences the delight of “first love” for the Lord. His life takes on new meaning and will exhibit the evidence of first love for Jesus Christ: an overwhelming sense of gratefulness to God, an abiding joy of spirit, a growing spiritual hunger and desire to read God’s Word, and a deepening love for fellow believers. He will also experience a changing of priorities and an increasing awareness of those behaviors which would grieve the Holy Spirit.


Just as any human relationship can grow cool and distant, so can our relationship with the Lord. Understanding why we lose our first love will give us insight into regaining it again. So, how do we lose our first love?


 
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Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God

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Oswald Chambers was a Scottish preacher, teacher, artist, musician, and military chaplain. This compelling biography by David McCasland details the life of the author of the beloved devotional classic, My Utmost for His Highest. Oswald Chambers’ wholehearted devotion to Christ will inspire and challenge you.

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“Shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this

one thing only — “My Utmost for His Highest.” I am determined

to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone.”

–Oswald Chambers

 

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