God really gets me sometimes.

Life has been really tough for me lately. Maybe I'll blog about that soon...but for now there is this. I got a daily devotional in the email today and it said this:

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Return to Your First Love
"Look how far you have fallen from your first love! Turn back to me again and work as you did at first."
— Revelation 2:5

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 emotion. Our relationship with God involves continually doing the things that will keep us strong spiritually.

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.

Now I don't have a spouse but I think the message in this is so powerful for anyone, single or married or dating. "Are you taking the Lord for granted today?" I think that most of us probably are, in one way or another. Whether you're like me, so focused and worried that you can't see the positives or whether you just don't care about God at all. Isn't it all a piece of the same thing? I don't want to take God for granted, I want to love him more than anything else, more than everything. I want to find my way back to that peace that only he can give me.

God, forgive me and help me find my way back to your love.