RESCUED FROM THE DOLDRUMS

Revelation 2:4 NLT But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! 

I wonder if you ever feel like you’re in the doldrums? Those days when you wake up and don’t feel very ‘fired up’! Perhaps the humdrumness of everyday life has pulled you down, or something may have happened that has thrown a bucket of water on your enthusiasm for the things of God and you could do with some new spiritual energy? 

In Revelation Jesus tells the Ephesian church they’d lost their first love for Him and each other, and their need to be fired up again. There may be times we feel like that too and we need rescuing from the doldrums, from the spirit of apathy! We need to put some new coals on the fire!😊 So how do we do that? 

Well I’m here to remind us we’re still in the palm of God’s loving hands, that He has not withdrawn from us in any way. His Spirit is still leading and guiding us when we acknowledge Him and ask for His help, so He is our first port of call.

He still loves us, we’re still the apple of His eye, His special treasure, and we belong to Him as part of His family. God has not taken away His anointing or His giftings from us, so we can rise up, dust ourselves off and praise Him for His faithfulness and goodness to us.

We know God never withholds His grace, but His word does tell us we have to come to Him to receive it in our time of need.😊

So, can I encourage us all to come again to His throne of grace with a thankful heart and ask the Lord to light a fresh fire inside of us if we need it, or rekindle the fire that has maybe gone quiet, to do whatever is necessary for us to remember He has already paid a great price to rescue us, and He wants to rescue so many more through us. 

And if you’re already on fire for Jesus, go and encourage someone else today who is having a fit of the doldrums and help relight their fire.😊 In Jesus’ name. Amen.