As I started reading about the church in Ephesus, it sounded really good until I read verse 4. It says, “Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.” The Greek word for ‘left’ means to neglect or forsake.

My mind went immediately to John 15. Verse 4 in the Amplified says, “Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. (Live in Me, and I will live in You.) Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.”

Bearing fruit for His glory comes from abiding not doing. I never understood that until 1977. I was bedridden from falling headfirst into a six foot ravine. It stopped me in my tracks. It was during that time that the Lord wooed me through intimate communion with Him. He taught me how to be vitally united. I ceased to do and learned to be.