With Your First Love

Sometimes a gentle, warm, contentedness creeps up on me. Over the years, I’ve come to associate it with the Lord’s nearness.

I feel closest to the Lord when I’m driving. Like old men going fishing because they simply need that quiet, quality time with a close friend, sometimes I go driving with Jesus. It doesn’t matter if we catch any fish or go anywhere exciting together—it just matters that we are together.

A lot of people downplay the importance of feelings in Christianity. I, on the otherhand, don’t think there is enough emphasis on feelings. What was that verse about returning to our first love referring to? Did it mean loving Jesus with a methodical, routine, love so focused on commitment that it forgot to be in love? It was talking about the first time you fell. Remember just wanting to be with him or her? Remember wanting to memorize your love’s eyes, smell? The covenant-love brings such a safety, but it is the first love we are to return to again and again.

Get caught up the in the emotions. Run through the fields with Him. Make dinner with your love. Go exploring the city with Him by your side. He just wants to be—with you.