Daily Devotional
Go Back To Your First Love
Text: Song of Songs 5:8
“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved,That you tell him I am lovesick!”
Message
Going back to your first love when everything was in order requires you go back to where you lost the love.
Ask yourself what are those things you were doing when the love started that you have stopped or taken for granted and no longer doing. Beloved take a reverse start doing them again.
Let me be personal. When I meet my wife she was trendy. Suddenly I found her deviating after we had our children. Then I remembered a cloth I like on her. I went to buy and I over buy! Trust women. “How much did you buy each?” “Why three and not one or two?”
I was disappointed. I thought of another strategy. One day I insist she wears one of it. She did. I took my phone and started capturing the moment. I went further telling her “You are so beautiful in this dress”. All she gave was a smile while I was expecting a “Thank You” and a laughter. I said to myself “now you are coming”. I put the photos on the family WhatsApp and the children started responding with adjectives she could not stand. Then she said laughing, “You better pack the house full. Since you and your children love it I keep wearing them”. Two months ago, she was asking if I could take her to the shop again!
Remove the assumptions, the shame and disgrace, the burden of gift and sin and like the Prodigal Son returns to your first love. It is your marriage and not those clapping hands or saying nonsense! It is you and your spouse that makes your marriage. It is the two of you that they are watching. Take the prize and let them go to their houses with their opinion. That does not concern you. It remains their perspective and you can’t change that but you can change your opinion of your marriage.
No issue of what people will say. No, I cannot forgive an aspect of what he said.
No gain finding out who was wrong. Both of you were wrong in not understanding the meaning, purpose, the intricacies, nature and character of love, your individual make up, background, races, qualifications, personality and experiences!
Beloved remember Prophet Elisha when told the axe was missing asked a question not two or more-where did it fell into the water? To me that’s wisdom though some says is a miracle.
I say it is wisdom based on knowledge and understanding that an axe thrown into water would not float but as metal keeps going down. And what do you expect of my mother’s axe. It’s big to withstand being carried away by water. It is exactly what goes up must come down.
Bush it!
Who told you that you cannot make up in that broken marriage of yours?
Who told your marriage is irretrievably broken?
They are all nay sayers. You can have it back again. Just make up your mind to take it back again.
Avoid the consequences and limitations in a damaged marriage. In any case “Who will you believe, God or man?”
God that says yesterday is gone and I have made everything new for you is the anchor of my marriage.
If it is shame and disgrace bothering you particularly as to things that you have said or done to each other, don’t fulfill their expectations. I pray you will not exchange your marriage for theirs. Theirs is worse than yours. It’s just wrapper truck. They are covering up theirs and magnifying your errors and mistakes. Stop playing the fool.
After all, there is hope that a tree cut down will grow again and the branches bidding with plenty fruit.
Listen to me son and daughter of the Most High God. You only went through pruning as the Father loved you, so that you may bear more abiding fruits.
Look, I have a garden that has many kinds of trees. I only prune those I love and eat the fruit so that they give me greater harvest. Those I don’t like are on their own!
I decree a cessation to the demonic activities and storms plaguing your marriage and family in Jesus Name.
Amen.