| Friday, February 25 The Right Road Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
Revelation 2:4 There is a principle in geography, relationships, and other endeavors that involve time and movement: The wrong road never turns into the right road. If you discover you are on the wrong road you must turn around and go back to where you made the wrong turn. Get off the wrong road, and get on the right road, and move forward from there. Even if we miss our objective by a millimeter, the distance between us and our goal only widens with time if we are on the wrong road. When love for Christ grew cold in the church at Ephesus, Jesus himself told the church to "repent" and return to her first love. When young pastor Timothy grew fearful in exercising his gift of leadership, Paul told him to "stir up" the gift--fan it into flame again. And when Solomon and his wife hit a rough spot in their marriage, they rekindled their romance with a Weekend retreat to the countryside. The first step is acknowledgement: Things are different; the fire/romance/power/love is waning and weakening. We must get off this wrong road and return to the right road before we lose our way. If you are losing sight of familiar benchmarks in any area of life, stop--go back to the landmarks you recognize, and go forward again. Read-Thru-the-Bible
Deuteronomy 5:1-7:26  | 
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