The First Love Experience

I have come to learn not to despise a small group when I teach Bible study.  Because usually those who don't generally open up, will when there is a smaller group. A more intimate group tends to give that quiet one a chance to get in there and say something.  I don't know if they feel safer or that less voices give them an opportunity to share.  Well that was the case Tuesday night. 

We've been watching Beth Moore's DVD Bible study on the book of Revelation.  That particular night we were on the 7 churches listed in chapters 2 and 3. When we begin, we review our homework, watch the DVD lesson, and then I will ask was there anything that stood out to anyone. After some silence, one of the ladies shared that when Beth talked about returning to your first love, she had never understood it.  But now that she explained it the way she did, she wants it badly.  She said it with tears.  She had been coming from a worldly perspective. 

I love how Beth Moore explains things.  When she began with the concept forgiveness, this lady now had a scriptural basis from which to build upon.  Beth showed that you can't hang on to unforgiveness and your first love with the same set of hands.  Then, in a Beth Moore fashion, she shared what first love with Jesus is.  Realizing this, she challenges us, something has to go.  Beth speaks from an experience that gives her a voice where some of us cannot speak from.  She also speaks from such love.

Once Beth Moore had explained it, my friend knew that this was what she wanted.  She never really had a first love experience. When we all had shared and were ready for prayer, she asked that she would be able to have that experience for herself.  Most of these ladies that I teach grew up in the church, but they had wandered far from it once they were on their own.  I ask that you join with us in prayer that these ladies would all have that first love experience and have that desire to maintain that relationship as well.