Jesus

"Jesus, Beloved"

Two weeks ago these were the words that came out of my teacher's mouth at the beginning of class. He could barely speak because he was so broken over the church's neglect for Jesus that he was in tears for nearly half of our two hour class. When he could talk, he continued to say that without the fellowship and love of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, all of life comes down to nothing. When so many of us focus on the 'social' and 'poitical' issues of the day, we have forgotten our first love. Issues are not the problem, the neglect of Jesus is. For example: abortion needs to be ended and human trafficking needs to be ended, but so many people have neglected Jesus as the basis for the ending of these... We need to put Jesus back in the center! I believe that if we would just preach Jesus and His life and ministry and kingdom that all these issues would be solved!! People would be less concerned with the issue and would be totally consumed with the heart of Jesus behind each issue!! Beloved, we need to return to our first love!
Jesus I ask that you would show us your glory that we might remember the heights from which we have fallen! We want to be with you where you are! Return to us Jesus and make all things right once again! I pray that you would put the love that is in your Father in us so that we could love you with an everlasting love like He loves you! (John 17.) Jesus, I pray that you would dwell in our hearts and increase our faith! I pray that we would be a people who are rooted and grounded in the love of Jesus Christ and that we would be able to know the highth, the depth, the width and the length of your love for us in Christ!! Bring to fullness the Spirit's work in our lives! Take us deeper Holy Spirit! We want nothing less than what you have for us!! Bring us into the fullness of the Spirit. (Ephesians 3:17-19.)