Couldn’t Jesus rightly say to us, "I have something against you, because you have left your first love"? Sadly, we’ve done so little for our Master’s glory. Our spiritual winter has lasted far too long. We give God pennies when He deserves pounds; no, He deserves our very life’s blood to be spent in

service to His church and His truth. But will we continue like this? Oh Lord, after You’ve blessed us so richly, will we remain ungrateful and indifferent to Your cause and work? Revive us so we can return to our first love and do the works we did at first! Send us a warm spring, O Sun of Righteousness.

Think back to those early days with Christ when your soul was fresh with dew, when your heart was singing, and the notes hadn’t grown stale. Oh, the sweetness of those first days with Christ! Oh, the joy of our first love! Do you remember how you were

fully satisfied with Christ and rejoiced in Him without ceasing? Look back and ask the Lord to renew your youth like the eagle’s.