Devotion Revelation 2:4-5

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. - Revelation 2:4-5

I've been in a funk lately.  Man, it seems like everything just gets to me.  I was always fretting over what I wasn't getting done.  I just couldn't seem to get caught up.  I was caught up in not being caught up.  There's stuff at church I'd like to do and then the stuff I need to do: homeschooling, running the homeschool group, teaching four classes at homeschool group, general housework, having time with the kids where I'm not doing some work, trying to not seemed harried when Larry would get home.  I was caught up in busy-ness, caught up in a pity party for myself, caught up in trying to be perfect in everything in my life.  So, last Wednesday in church, Pastor was preaching about the return of the Lord in Thessalonians 4:  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (I Thessalonians 4:16-17) He talked about the meaning of 'caught up' and how it means a caught up that is emotional and spiritual as well as physical, the most rapturous feeling you could ever have.  Can you imagine?  In my most wild imagination, I can't imagine what that will be like.  I think my heart would burst if I could really imagine it.  Remember what it was like when you first got saved - how you felt free and happy and, well, kind of rapturous?  Well, take that feeling and multiply it by infinity, and there you have 'caught up'.  It's time to return to my first love, to that rapturous feeling of being free in the Lord.  It's time to be caught up in the Lord instead of the trials of life.  A favorite verse of mine is Isaiah 40:28-31 - Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.   Haven't you heard?  When it seems like there's an ending pile of work to be done, just lay it on the Lord.  Wait on the Lord.  Last week I started just giving my whole day to the Lord, and slowly the work whittled away and what seemed to be a burden eased.  I'm learning to just say to the Lord, 'I know what I think needs to be done, but, Lord, show me how I can serve you best in my busy-ness.  I want to be in Your will in all areas of my life and show me how to be there.'  It's like creating your own solar system - start with the Son and let everything else revolve around Him and everything will be orderly and perfect in the eyes of the Lord.  It's time to get caught up.  It's time to get back to your first love.