Return to the first love

Just thinking. Do we actually know what this means? Do we actually know what we're saying when we say this phrase?

I would say to a great extent the majority (and I don't use that word lightly) don't really have an idea. There ideas are either one of the two simple answers. Either they say: Yes we need to return to our first love. And returning to the first love has to do with loving Jesus more and making sure you haven't replaced him with another love or direction of your affections. The other would be saying: No we don't need to return, either these people are already there...or they believe that his place is permitted to be in a weary and waviery state.

Oh the simplicity of it all, well I would have to say no way. Simplicity is complicated.

Two specific things have caught my attention in the last couple of days. And whether it looks like they totally corolate with this idea or not I believe they are significant.

1. First Corinthians Verse Seven.

...marriage....
When Paul says things like: "It is good for a man not to touch a woman." When he says this he isn't saying if your married, he is saying don't get married, don't touch your wife, because you won't have one sort of idea..this is huge to me.

He even goes on to talk about one reason not to marry being the fact that you concentrate on things of this world..refering to a spouse and how you then must concentrate on pleasing them. Hello people, is this as crazy to everyone else as it is to me? I mean it must not be because I haven't heard much about this...think about that.

2. Isaiah 8:13

"Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread."

Sanctify = Consecrate = Declare.

Basically: Declare God to God, fear him, and dread him.

Therefore..I guess I could pretend to mesh it all together, but I really think that this is important. I mean if you don't understand the idea of God as your first love that will take away from almost every aspect of everything.

The statement: Declare God to God. How much does that mean without love. Nothing to Him. Some people I imagine believe it does mean something because the don't have love in their hearts, however many probably believe they do.

But when you add love to the mix and say "God your are God, you are holy." And God hears this (Hello) - actually hears it. When He knows it is coming from someone who seeks first the kingdom of God, and loves him fully and FIRST-LY. WOW.

I don't even think I really put those two together, I find that I actually separate it completely. Having God as a first love is over here and all the rest is on this other side. How can it be?

Declare it to Him - God you are God! God you are Holy! AND YOU ARE MY FIRST LOVE!

I hope this makes sense. I guess what my feeble mind cannot understand is how nothing we got, matters, it will all pass away, whether it is pleasure or love or relationship. I am not saying it doesnèt matter, because what we do here and now leads to eternity. But I cannot understand how something we as humans value so much which God has made (marriage) can be so insignificant again, I mean Paul does talk clearly about how one man is meant to do one thing while the other is to do the other. (One to get married the other not) And this was spoken by permission not by command. But saying 'it is better not to be married'. Yet most seek that above everything else, in reference to earthly things or whatever. Because obviously there are whole-hearted people that are married. But why is it so important, yet so fleeting. And why is it that in Genesis it was clearly stated that it wasn't good for man to be alone, which is why woman was made!!! I think that has a huge thing to do with the corporate dwelling in eternity but that's another thing. I can not compile all my thoughts an mold them together to create a finalized and complete conscensis, so there it is.

Be affected.