We are God\’s priests
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 6:12 – The fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest is to add firewood and arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat of the fellowship offerings on it.
We are responsible for keeping the fires on the altars of our devotional lives burning through constant prayer. Then the fire of the Holy Spirit will never go out.
It is important for us to love lost souls, to bend our knees to groan and cry out for this lost world. When we accept Jesus, the flames on the altar reach the ceiling. However, with time, the love dies down, and the fire on the altar does too. Then, where there was fire, only ashes remain. If we allow the fire on the altar to go out as happened to the Levites, we aren\’t suitable as priests; we fail in our duties. If we don\’t keep the fire on the altar of God burning in our lives, we will go cold. We will lose the love we had for souls lost without Christ and cease to care for the work of God and our brothers and sisters.
But, like the church in Ephesus, we can still recover our first love. They forsook their first love and the altar was consumed. They had worked very hard, done much, endured much, but something was wrong. God saw the many efforts of the church in Ephesus, their tireless work. He knew that they didn\’t tolerate wicked men and that they had tested those who claimed to be apostles and were not. However, He told them, \”Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen!
PRAYER- Repent and do the things you did at first\” (Rev. 2:4-5).