My First Love

"First Love Never Dies"

They say, "First love never dies." For earthly lovers, they usually say that when they experience affection towards each other for the first time, and later on become joined as one after years of courtship. But some say the opposite because of their heartbreak on the first person whom they gave their time and effort with. There usually comes the "Love is blind," giving the meaning of love as something that is experienced without discerning right and wrong about the relationship. But why the bottom line is TRUE? Who really is our FIRST LOVE?


The One Who Loved Us First

1 John 4:10
This is love: not that we love God, but that He first loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Who is the FIRST One who gave LOVE? He is God. He Himself is Love. It is His character, and He is the ultimate giver of life and LOVE. He is our First Love. Even though we are so hard-headed, committing intolerable sins, He still loves us because it is who He is. Instead of us being punished, He sent His Son, Jesus as a sacrifice on the cross because of His love.


The Destroyer of Love

He created the world out of LOVE, saying that "It is good," (Genesis 1) and so we are GOOD in the sight of God as humans who are created in His image. But because of sin, we became separated from Him because it is against LOVE. The cunning devil made his scheme to take away the beloved possession of God through deception. And out of human's disobedience to God (and believing the devil instead), we have been cut off from His sight, the reason why we can't see Him face to face. God is so Holy that He cannot take sight of our sin. We were banished from His presence, and death came to us. Until Jesus came into the world, the devil had always taken the opportunity to be the "thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy" (John 10:10).


Love Has Overcome

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His One and Only Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

This verse has been so familiar to people around the nation. We can hear this in churches, hymns and can even be seen on someone's doorpost. But this verse gave a lot of interpretation to many religious sects. Many have memorized it but never knew its perfect meaning, or even experience what it is. Jesus is the One who made a way for our redemption, and to bring us back to a relationship with God. Through Him, death was defeated. Sin may still be in people's lives, but God is GREATER. His love has conquered sin. And yet, we cannot inherit this eternal life unless we humbly come to Him to surrender all our sins, and ACCEPT Jesus as Lord and Savior of our lives.


His Love Endures Forever

Jesus is "the same today, yesterday and forever." People ans the world will change, but His love remains the same. He is the Eternal Life whom we have hope for. Who He is in the beginning, He still is and will still be. Even when we become faithless, He is still faithful. He really does what He has promised. He loves us so much, that all He wants is the best for us, just as He is our Father. We can never be good enough to God, but He who is GOOD is more than enough to supply for all our needs. We don't have to inherit His Kingdom through our works, because His GRACE is sufficient for our salvation. We must look forward to pursuing the heavenly which are eternal, than the things in this world that is just temporal. And as He gave His life for me, I recognize Jesus as my hope, my strength, my Lord and Savior, and my FIRST LOVE.