Sunday

I didn’t feel like going to FCC this weekend because I just wanted to worship God and not have people ask me how my dad is, how I am, how I am coping. I was in that kind of “Take me to the place Lord, where there’s nothing else but me and you” mood. So I decided to visit Cornerstone instead. Worship was good but so long that I was having a backache at the end of worship. The message was about returning to our first love.. How to return to our first love?

What the Senior Pastor suggested:

1)First thing is to remember where we had been before when we experienced our first love. Remembering what we used to do when we were at that “high”.
2)Repent: change of mind, change of direction
3)Do the first works. And what is first works? Prayer, Biblical meditation and worship. Keeping our devotional time with God.

In reflection, there are two trains of thoughts. One, it’s true that a relationship with God is possibly the most important thing we can have as believers. And I also agree that it’s through prayer, biblical meditation and worship that we facilitate that relationship with God. And this is also a good reminder for me because it is so tempting to just do and do and do and move with the flow and not set aside sufficient time to pray and meditate. However, I also think there should be outflow of this relationship with God, which is seen in our “fruit”, our effectiveness, our reaching out to people. If every believer works towards this mandate, the world will be a more pleasant place to live in.
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