Is Jesus Your First Love, Treasure, & Passion ? - Pursuing Intimacy With God
Is Jesus your First Love, Treasure, & Passion ? Do you love Jesus more than anything or anyone else ? Do you treasure and value Jesus more than anything or anyone else ? Are you passionate about Jesus and about the things He is passionate about ?
If you love anything or anyone else more than Jesus, then you have an idol(s). Do you treasure anyone or anything else more than Jesus ? If so then you have an idol(s). If you are more passionate about something or someone else than Jesus, then you have an idol(s).
Before we decide that we do not have any idols in our lives, we need God to examine our hearts. We also need to honestly look into our hearts and ask the following questions:
Is Jesus Your First Love, Treasure, & Passion ?
Is Jesus your First Love ?
Do you have any idols in your life ? Do you love anything more than Jesus. Or do you treasure anything more than Jesus ? Or are you more passionate about something than Jesus ?
It is human nature to have idols. We typically tend to go after the things or people that we can see and touch. The tangible things in life. For many to have a close relationship with God is difficult because they cannot see Him.
To determine if you have any idols in your life, answer the following questions. Honestly.
Is Jesus Your Treasure ?
What do you treasure and value and desire most ?
Matthew 6:21 – “for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Whatever or whoever you value and treasure most, that is where your heart will be. And your devotion, your love, and your passion. God wants to be your Treasure, since He treasures and value you most.
What do you seek after or pursue most ?
Proverbs 21:21 – “He who pursues righteousness and loyalty finds life, righteousness and honor.” Pursuing righteousness means to pursue a right & close relationship with God.
Matthew 6:33 – “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ” Jesus tells us to Seek First His kingdom and His righteousness. This means to put in first place… the most important things in our lives need to be our relationship with God and God’s kingdom work and mission. Top priority. Highest importance.
God wants you to pursue and seek Him – first. Above all other things.
Is Jesus Your Passion ?
What takes most of your time & focus & energy ?
Colossians 3:1-2 – “Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.”
God wants you to set your heart and mind on Him and His kingdom work and mission. Your main focus and effort needs to be on your fellowship with God. Then at some point, as you grow closer to God, He will invite you to join Him in His kingdom work & mission.
What do you put your trust in ?
Proverbs 3:5-6 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart. And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.”
God wants you to trust in Him with all your heart. He wants you to trust in Him more than anything else or anyone else.
Is Jesus Your First Love, Treasure, & Passion ?
What do you think will satisfy and fulfill you ?
Isaiah 55:1-3 – ““Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk. Without money and without cost. “Why do you spend money for what is a not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy ? Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies shown to David.”
Psalm 63:1-3, 5 – “O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water. Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory. Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips will praise You… My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.”
John 10:10 – “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
God wants to give you abundant life. He wants to fully fill and satisfy your heart and soul. Only He can give you peace and joy. And only Jesus and a close relationship with Him can fully satisfy your soul.
What are some things you are not willing to let go of ?
Philippians 3:7-9 – “But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ.”
You need to be willing to love and follow Jesus, whatever the cost. The things people tend to hold onto cannot and will not satisfy. Only Jesus can fully satisfy you.
Is Jesus Your First Love, Treasure, & Passion ?
Why do you do the things you do ?
1 Chronicles 28:9 – “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.”
Matthew 22:37-40 – “And He said to him, “‘ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
2 Corinthians 5:9 – “Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.”
In all that you do, your motives should be love for God and love for others. When your heart is right with God, that will be your motive. When God is your First Love, Treasure, & Passion, all that you do will be out of love and devotion for Him.
Additional Bible verses to read
“God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.” – Psalm 53:2
“Yet you have not called upon me… you have not wearied yourselves for me.” – Isaiah 43:22
“All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you. You have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins.” -Isaiah 64:6-7
“I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. And I will cleanse you from your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws…You will be my people, and I will be your God.” – Ezekiel 36:25-28
Is Jesus Your First Love, Treasure, & Passion ?
God Needs to Touch Our Hearts
” I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord. They will be My people and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.” – Jeremiah 24:7
“If my people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.” – 2 Chronicles 7:14
” Even now, declares the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.” – Joel 2:12-13
Jesus wants to be your First Love, because you are His first love
And Jesus wants to be your Treasure, because you are His treasure
Jesus wants to be your Passion, because you are His passion
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