Sunday, July 3, 2011

"Do you remember your first love?"

One evening this past week, David and I sat down and watched a very special video representing a very wonderful time in our life. . . . our wedding! A very dear friend came upon their copy of this VHS video that was made almost 24 years ago. They transferred it to a DVD and mailed it to us. I excitedly awaited it's arrival! My excitement didn't appear to carry over into my children though. As Levi stated the night David and I were watching, "That looks like the most BORING thing ever to watch." Ah well....who cares.... Probably would be to a teenage boy. But to me. . .  even with it's flaws and poor quality compared to today's technology. . . it was priceless!

As we sat there and shared laughs over just how MUCH we and others have changed through the years. . . time has a way of doing that - we also noticed that there was a sentimentalness to it for 5 very SPECIAL people we loved dearly were past from this life to the next. I'm sure there were others out in the crowd that have past as well, but these 5 were a part of us and who we were in a sense. Kinda makes you realize the shortness of life as well. One man was absent that day. A man I have grown only to know through countless stories I have been told. A man that was admired, respected and loved. A man that one day I will get to meet for the very first time. A man that I'm sure I would have loved while he lived upon the earth, and hoped that he would have loved me in return just as much. My father in law.

< A toss in > So glad that my lovely husband discarded the giant glasses, higher pitched voice, hillbilly talk and has become the suave and ultra-magnificient-cool man he is of today!! :))

In sharing about our time of viewing a special memory, I also tell you that as wonderful as it was to see so many faces of those in past days as well as seeing the memory of how we looked ourselves. . . it was the memory of our first love that I would like to think was the most captivating. And so it is that I write this Blog.

As I decided upon a topic to write about after prayer and much thought, I went with this one. As I begin to write I remembered words from our dear friend who sent the video to us. She simply said "watch it and always remember that first love that you two shared." Hopefully in me remembering her words, once I got started, was the assurance from God that this was indeed what I was supposed to write about! :)

I will share with you that David was/is/will be always and forever my first love. I am most thankful that God didn't see fit to take me through numerous relationships while growing up. Although, while growing up you don't realize the beauty of that blessing! But, in looking back you most certainly do! I will also share with you that there was one other boy that will hold a forever special place in my heart as well. Many of you know him, but for lack of embarrassment to him I will with hold his name. ; ) He would one day introduce me to my husband and very lovingly and graciously bow out for he saw the  happiness that would come. I thank him with all my heart for the wonderful boyfriend as well as  friend that he was to both me and David. I hope he reads this and truly knows what a special person I know him to be!

I can also tell you that just as SURE as I know that David is my one and only true love both then and now. . . I also know that that love has grown immeasurably in great ways through times of testing, mistakes, errors, heartaches. And not only through those, but also through just the simple and pure enjoyment of finding happiness in being together as the very best of best friends. God has truly blessed us with being able to spend very much of our lives together. The beauty of that blessing. . . we never tire of being together and I mean that in the very most literal sense of the word - never. I read and hear how that others can't stand to be together for very great lengths of time with their spouse and it makes me wonder WHY then are you married? I know too though that people need their individualness and that can come across in different ways than I am not accustom to.

As I look back at this video, I can see and remember that "first love" in my eyes. But, I don't have to just look back and remember. Today I can still see and know that I have that same "first love" in my eyes, in my heart and in my actions. I can tell you that David carries that "first love" as well. He shows me everyday what it means to him through his loving actions. I am blessed above and beyond deserving.

Just as important for us to look back and remember that "first love" we have for our spouses, I believe God is telling us to also not forget nor dismiss that "first love" He has for us. God's love for us never ceases, never dims, never grows stale. In fact He not only loves you, but He DELIGHTS in you as well!! There may be some that have never felt "delighted" in so it would seem foreign to them to hear this. God delights in you simply and for no other reason. . . because you are His. His delight doesn't result from what you have done, what you haven't done or even what you can show for all your strivings. His delight is in you for you and exactly you. "How precious concerning me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them they would outnumber the grains of sand." God's delight is in you, my friend. Do you recall a time in your life when you made Jesus your first love? Do you recall a time of trusting in Jesus as God's provision for the salvation of your eternal soul? There is no other in which you can be saved by. Jesus says "I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me." John 14:6. If you haven't experienced that "first love" with the very ONE that loves you most - you can today, right now, right here!

Are you ready?
If unsure, know that you can KNOW!
A= Accept that you are a sinner in need of a Saviour!
B= Believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead!
C= Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and call upon Him to save YOU!


If you have received that "first love" and know it's realness, but through the years and passage of time it has grown weak. . . know that God's love is always strong, secure and present. That love awaits your return. Just as I have shared the plan of salvation countless times in my Blogs, I also have shared that God can and DOES make new out of not just fresh born again believers, but old believers as well! I'm living proof!! :)

So won't you take a moment out of your busy day and not only remember that "first love" with the very One Who saved your soul, but also ask Him to make it refreshed too? "Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me." Psalms 51:12.

As I end my Blog, I leave with you another great verse of God's great love and delight in you!
"The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing." Zephaniah 3:17.

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