Your First Love – your Lion Bites word for today

In this season of waiting, where is your focus?

As the Israelites waited over centuries for their Messiah, their long-awaited King, know that I too waited with anticipation, with bated breath. Oh, how I longed for that moment. I left Heaven to come to earth as your Saviour, not with regret, or with a sense of sacrifice, but with intense joy. This point in Earth’s history, quiet and unremarked by men at the time, was a moment of celebration in the heavens. It was a pivotal point in the history of mankind.

And now, again, I wait. I wait with longing for my Bride for your gaze to turn to me. I wait for you to pause in the busyness of life, to give me your attention, your full attention. I did not come for snatched moments, for traditions, or meaningless rituals; I came for your heart, your whole heart.

This too is a pivot point in your history. Will you pause right now and refocus your gaze upon me, your coming King? I long for you. I don’t want you to prioritise snatched moments of time. I want so much more than that. I want to be your first love. I want your whole heart; I want to be first in your heart. Will you prioritise me? I am waiting for you.

Revelation 2:4-5 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.

Hebrews 12:2 BSB
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.