Are you feeling burned out?

[Roughsoul1991]

When the Spirit wants you to write, you write no matter how late it is.

Are you feeling burned out or seemingly have lost the first love of salvation? The loss of zeal, passion, joy, beauty, energy, and devotion?

The church of Ephesus Revelation 2:1-7 had some good commendations but Christ mentions they had lost their first love.

An individual Christian or the whole church can lose the fire they once had felt. For some, it may be the weariness that comes from persecution or spiritual warfare. For others, the life of comfort has led to complacency. While for many the weight of the world has choked out life in an apathetic manner.

There is no mysticism here but a Christian needs not to catch a flame that he or she already has. They simply need to return to their first love. To rekindle the flame within.

Every marriage counselor or self-help book will always recommend to develop love in a marriage, you return to what first brought love. In the beginning, you dated, you showed them acts of affection, you selflessly served them, you sacrificed for them, you unconditionally loved them because you started with a fail-proof marriage in mind. You made a vow in sickness and in health that you would love them.

Well, it is similar to our relationship with Jesus in the sense that love is both an action and an emotion. His pursuit of us will never grow cold but if we neglect Him, we begin to feel a disconnection.

Some try the quick fix or spiritual high which is only for the spiritually immature. A spiritual high that is saturated in emotion can never be sustainable and will return to normal whereas some confuse normal as something missing. Normal becomes bad and therefore leaves the individual in a perpetual pursuit of more that only leads to failure in sustaining the high.

Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare portrays the zeal and passion of youthful love. An image of life-giving sacrifice that many readers can relate to the first time of feeling love. The play would not have ended in tragedy if their love had grown cold and not led to their demise. But one must ask, would the coldness of love be even more of a tragedy?

To fall away from the first love, we risk losing the meaning of life itself.

Pay close attention to what you are connected to. Are you connected to what gives life or to what brings death? Stay near that which gives life and you will find an eternal flame.