Revelation 2:5:
Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
What would it be like if the one you married lost their interest in you? That's not a condition that makes for a strong marriage.
Sometimes when I look at those in the church, and even myself, I wonder if we are guilty of being so busy at being "church members" that we lose our interest in the Lord. Not that we don't have a love for Him, but we just sort of let our attention drift away.
Holding fast to traditions and habits is easy. Those in the church in Ephesus seemed to have become used to their ways . . . They worked hard. They were patient. They wouldn't put up with evil people. They tested those who came around saying they were apostles when they were not. They even put up with suffering . . . But, they were not doing it out of love -- just tradition and habit.
We are guilty of this same loveless following when we attend services without really thinking about why; when we give regularly, but don't have our hearts behind why we are giving. We can even be guilty when we suffer "because we know we should," but don't understand it to be part of our "reasonable service." (Rom. 12:1)
They say the distance between right and wrong is often 20 inches -- the average distance between our head and our heart.
If we don't take care about how we conduct ourselves in our Christian walk, we can easily be doing the right things, but doing them without our hearts being involved.
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