Do you remember when you first fell in love with your spouse? Remember how you wanted to make such a great impression? You would wear your best clothes, put your best foot forward, and use your best manners. Wherever you went, people could see you holding hands and looking into one another’s eyes. Then there were those little gifts you would give to each other throughout the week, just to let each other know how much you loved one another.

What brought you and your spouse together was your desire for companionship, for intimacy, for honesty. But when a husband and wife begin to take each other for granted, that marriage becomes endangered. A marriage is strong because you make it that way. Romance is kept alive by a conscious effort on your part. Romance is not something that comes and goes. It is something that you keep alive as you take part in the necessary activities to keep your marriage strong and vibrant.

A Christian’s relationship with God is similar. This romance that we have with the Lord is more than mere emotionalism. Our relationship with God involves continuing to take part in the right things that will keep us strong spiritually.

If you recall those days it should jolt you back into your senses. How many of us have moved on and and share multiple people to whom we repeated the same lines “I love you”. My question is this morning. Did we mean those words when we said them to our Lord Jesus at the foot of the cross?

Are you taking the Lord for granted today? If so, take the necessary steps to return to your first love—your love for Jesus Christ.

Sir Godfrey Gregg

Co-Founder of The Mystical Order