Signs of Loss of Our True Love

Scripture: Mark l2:30...'Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul,
and strength.

The main problem in our world today is that 'we have forgotten how to
love'. And, as Christians, we must examine ourselves to see our true
hearts. In light of this, it might be wise to check ourselves to see where
our heart's lie.

Here are some evidences that you may have left your lst Love:
l. You can go hours or days without having more than a passing
thought of Christ.

2. You don't have a strong-passionate desire to spend time with Him.
This has become a chore, something to mark off your to-do list.

3. You don't have a strong hunger for Bible reading.

4. Spending time talking to God in prayer is a burden or duty rather
than a delight.

5. Your worship is gray, formal, dry, lifeless, merely going through the
motions...just rhetoric.

6. Private prayer and worship are almost non-existent, cold, and dry.

7. You are more concerned about physical health, well-being, and
comfort than about the well-being and condition of your soul and others.

8. You crave food while having little appetite four spiritual food.

9. You crave human companionship more than the close relationship
between you and the Father.

l0. You spend more time and effort on your physical appearance than
cultivating inner spiritual beauty to please God.

ll. Your heart toward Christ is cold and indifferent, not tender as it once
was, not easily moved by the Word, talking about spiritual things, etc.

l2. Christianity is more of a checklist than a relationship with Him.

l3. You measure spirituality by performance rather than condition of
your heart before God.

l4. Christianity is more defined by what you 'do' rather than who you
'are'...(doing vs. being).

l5. Your obedience and service are motivated by expectations of
others or the desire to impress others, rather than by passion and for for
Christ.

l6. You are more concerned about what others think and pleasing
them, rather than about what God knows and is pleasing to Him.

l7. Your service for Christ and others is motivated by a sense of duty
or obligation.

l8. You find yourself becoming resentful over the hardships and
demands of serving God and others.

l9. You can talk with others about kids, marriage, weather, and the
news, but struggle to talk about the Lord or spiritual matters with others.

20. You have a hard time coming up with something fresh to share in a
testimony at church or when someone asks, 'What's God been doing in
your life?'

2l. You are formal, rigid, and uptight about spiritual things, rather than
joyful or excited.

22. You are critical or harsh toward those who are doctrinally off-base
or living in sin.

23. You enjoy secular songs, movies, and books more than songs or
reading material that points you to Christ.

24. You prefer the company of people who don't love Jesus than who
do.

25. You are more interested in recreation, entertainment, and having
fun than seeking a closer time and walk with the Lord through worship,
prayer, the Word, or Christian fellowship.

26. You display attitudes or are involved in activities that you know are
contrary to the Word but you continue in them anyway.

27. You justify 'small' areas of disobedience or compromise.

28. You have been drawn back into sinful habits that you put off when
you were a young believer.

29. "Little' things that used to disturb your conscience not longer do.
30. You are slow to respond to conviction over sin - or you ignore it
altogether.

3l. You enjoy certain sins and want to hang onto them. You are
unwilling to give them up for Christ.

32. You are not grieved by sin - it's no 'big, hairy deal' to you.
33. You are constantly allured by certain ain.

34. You are self-righteous - more concerned about the sin in others
lives than your own.

35. You are more concerned about having the right position then the
right disposition.

36. You tend to hold tightly to money and things rather than be quick
to give to meet the needs of others.

37. You rarely give sacrificially to the Lord's work.

38. You rarely have a desire to give when you hear of a financial
needs.

39. Accumulating material things consumes more times than the effort
than seeking spiritual things.

40. You have a broken relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and are
unwilling to see your need and change.

(Revelation 2: l-7).