Do You Remember the Time???
Revelation 2:4-5 (New Living Translation)
4) “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! 5) Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.
Remember when you first fell in love. Your first date, your first real kiss. Remember staying on the phone until somebody fell asleep. Remember going back and forth with “you hang up, no you hang up.” Remember how you constantly thought about that person, and no matter what people said, they were the greatest thing to you. And then remember life slowly creeping in. Remember how time wasn’t so easy to make or find to spend with that special person. Remember how school, parents, friends, children, careers, and personal ambition begin to take its toll. No one ever really sees the demise or deterioration of the relationship coming until its too late.
Let’s look at when we first got saved. We start off on a Holy High, and we are ready to take on the world. We read our Bible daily, we fast, we pray, we tithe, and we just think about the goodness of Jesus. We stand up and defend the name of our precious Savior to critics, non-believers and gossipers. Then we get a bad report from our doctor, or an unexpected bill shows up and we start to lose our focus. Marriage, education, and our personal pursuit of happiness now start to slowly creep into the forefront of our priority list. Now we only read our Bible when we get a second between T.V. shows and feeding the family. We don’t’ pray anymore, but we find a few moments to get our “needs” list into God before we fall asleep. We went from being super excited about going to service to barely making it in the door before the sermon.
In Michael Jackson’s “Do you Remember the Time” song, he is trying to win his woman back, by reminding her of what they use to share. Most times we wait until the relationship/friendship is over to look back at how and why it all started. Sometimes we’ve waited so long to do a “check up” on our relationships that its hard to recall the good times. So we all need to do what my pastor called an annual inspection. If need be a semi-annual inspection. We can’t continue to let the freshness and innocence of healthy relationships/friendships in our lives fall by the wayside. So let’s always “Remember the Time” that we first fell in love. But let us NEVER forget to remember the one who first fell in love with us, Jesus Christ.
God has been so good to us, and every morning we wake up is a reminder of that. So don’t make God have to turn his back on you, for you to remember what He means to you. Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, body and soul and you will fall in love with Him all over again………..for the rest of your life. The Message is in the Music, if you listen with your heart.
Revelation 2:4-5 (New Living Translation)
4) “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! 5) Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.
Remember when you first fell in love. Your first date, your first real kiss. Remember staying on the phone until somebody fell asleep. Remember going back and forth with “you hang up, no you hang up.” Remember how you constantly thought about that person, and no matter what people said, they were the greatest thing to you. And then remember life slowly creeping in. Remember how time wasn’t so easy to make or find to spend with that special person. Remember how school, parents, friends, children, careers, and personal ambition begin to take its toll. No one ever really sees the demise or deterioration of the relationship coming until its too late.
Let’s look at when we first got saved. We start off on a Holy High, and we are ready to take on the world. We read our Bible daily, we fast, we pray, we tithe, and we just think about the goodness of Jesus. We stand up and defend the name of our precious Savior to critics, non-believers and gossipers. Then we get a bad report from our doctor, or an unexpected bill shows up and we start to lose our focus. Marriage, education, and our personal pursuit of happiness now start to slowly creep into the forefront of our priority list. Now we only read our Bible when we get a second between T.V. shows and feeding the family. We don’t’ pray anymore, but we find a few moments to get our “needs” list into God before we fall asleep. We went from being super excited about going to service to barely making it in the door before the sermon.
In Michael Jackson’s “Do you Remember the Time” song, he is trying to win his woman back, by reminding her of what they use to share. Most times we wait until the relationship/friendship is over to look back at how and why it all started. Sometimes we’ve waited so long to do a “check up” on our relationships that its hard to recall the good times. So we all need to do what my pastor called an annual inspection. If need be a semi-annual inspection. We can’t continue to let the freshness and innocence of healthy relationships/friendships in our lives fall by the wayside. So let’s always “Remember the Time” that we first fell in love. But let us NEVER forget to remember the one who first fell in love with us, Jesus Christ.
God has been so good to us, and every morning we wake up is a reminder of that. So don’t make God have to turn his back on you, for you to remember what He means to you. Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, body and soul and you will fall in love with Him all over again………..for the rest of your life. The Message is in the Music, if you listen with your heart.
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