faithfulness

The message from Sunday's worship service has stuck with me throughout the week.  The theme was faithfulness, and the main idea was that our faithfulness is seen not so much in the things we do as in the heart attitude with which we are doing them.  The text was Revelation 2:1-7 where God exhorts the church in Ephesus because in spite of their deeds, hard work, and perseverance, they had forsaken their first love.  How do we maintain that first love?  By meditating on, resting in, and receiving daily Christ's great love for us.  We can do this through our daily devotional reading of God's Word.  Here's a sampling of what I have read over the past few days:

Isaiah 1:18  "Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord.  "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool."

Titus 3:4-5  But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.

Psalm 116: 5-6, 8-9  The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.  The Lord protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me.

For you, O Lord, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living. 

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me that this kind of amazing love from God to us should be enough to keep me crazy in love with Jesus!!