LOST LOVE

Rev 2:2-4
2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. NIV
** Where’s the love? I so often get into a rut of doing, doing, doing and forget why I’m doing what I’m doing. I have to remind myself constantly that before work MUST come relationship. For example, I can do the work of a husband and act like a husband is to act and do all the stuff perfectly well and even beyond. But if I don’t have a speaking loving relationship with my wife, our marriage even though it might last a while out of sheer will, will never have the relationship that was meant to be. My wife can even come to me and demand love from me and I can go thru the motions by saying I love her and all the hugs and kisses I can muster up, but if I don’t do it out of relationship but out of task, that love is not “first love.” To have first love, we must WANT to love out of honor not just by deed alone.