Gina - 2 Peter 1:5-9 & Rev. 2:4,5

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. (2 Peter 1:5-9 NIV)

Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. (Revelation 2:4, 5 NIV)

When someone asks the question "How are you doing in your spiritual walk?" we answer with something like.. " I'm doing pretty good" or "I'm memorizing verses" or "not too good right now". Today I am understanding that the question is wrong!!! The question should be "How is your love for God and others? Is it growing? Is it deeper, more real than the day before?". Ahhh yes because this LOVE is the true evidence of one walking with Him and growing in goodness, knowledge, self control, perseverance, Godliness, mutual affections and love. I don't want to kick around what's right or wrong according to me or to you, trying to decide and dictate what is acceptable in this society and what's not. Yuck!! I just want Jesus! I want to fall in love with Him and be real! Learn from His word and grow in my love for HIM and OTHERS.  I want Him to LIVE in me and use me up while I'm here to build His kingdom. I don't want him to "remove his lampstand" from me.

I want to go back and STAY with my first love, remembering how far I've fallen.
Praise His name.