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WHAT’S YOUR MARRIAGE TEMPERATURE?
Have you lost your first love? Jesus rebuked the church at Ephesus because they had lost their first love for Him. To keep love going, we have to rekindle it, don’t we? God’s heart of love never changes toward us but we need to keep our hearts close to Him and loving Him back. We do this by keeping in His Word, in prayer, and fellowshipping with the saints.It seems that we are prone to losing the first fire of love. It happens in marriages too. What is the current love temperature in your marriage? Is it hot and passionate or getting a little cold and boring? Love doesn’t automatically keep hot. Without doing anything, it easily slips away.
Jesus told the Ephesus church to “repent, and DO the FIRST works” (Revelation 2:5).
Jesus never rebukes us without giving an answer. What is the answer? Do what you did in the beginning. It’s the same in our marriages. If our love toward our husband is waning, we DO something. First of all, we repent! Then we start doing what we did when we first fell in love.
When you fell in love with your husband, you spoke lovingly, endearingly, and kindly to him. Do it again.
You were sweet to him. How sweet are you now?
You smiled at him and looked at him adoringly. Are you doing that when he talks to you now?
You wanted to be with him all the time and communicate with him? Are you communicating now?
When love has grown really cold, it can seem impossible to get back the first love. But do it one step at a time. You do one little thing you used to do. And then you take the next step and the next step and as you keep doing the things that made your husband fall in love with you at the beginning, it will restore that glorious love between you again.
In fact, it will be more glorious. Older love is even more amazing than first love. Never be satisfied with lukewarm love. Go for the ultimate. It will happen if you do what God says.
Blessings to you today,
Nancy Campbell
Painting by Annet Loginova, Russia
