Remember When You Fell in Love?

Love is a funny thing. It can sneak up on you unawares. Love can drive you to do things you never would have done otherwise. It can bring two people together to share their entire lives with each other. Love can make someone risk everything just to stay in its embrace.

As blissful as love can be, it takes work and dedication to keep its flames burning. Without proper care and maintenance, love can fizzle out and leave a previously burning heart cold.

It's easy to fall into a routine of saying "I love you" and doing things for someone you love out of habit not affection. If you don't stay on top of things, you could easily look up to find resentment, boredom, or distraction taking up residence where love once lived.

One way to help fan the flames of love is to remember how you fell in love in the first place. What was it that made your heart skip a beat? What flipped on the switch of love for that person?

Sometimes the embers of our love for God may grow a bit dim. With the routine of life, other distractions, and missed times of intimacy with Him we may find ourselves interacting with God out of habit not out of genuine affection.

So, today take some time to fan the embers of your love for God. Remember the moment that you fell in love with Him. Reminisce over the time where your heart skipped a beat thinking of Him. What about the Father makes you smile? What did He do for you personally that sealed the deal of your love for Him?

Remembering specifically why you personally love God will help you continue to stay in love with Him. You may have let God into your heart, but once you gave Him ownership of your heart, it turned into a different story. Keep those flames of love alive. Don't let them die out.

Verse of the Day: Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us... 1 John 3:1