If we’re honest, losing our first love doesn’t usually happen overnight. It’s often a slow drift. Much like the church in Ephesus, this can happen when responsibilities pile up and ministry becomes about tasks more than intimacy…
The phrase due diligence often carries a legal connotation: reasonable steps taken to satisfy a legal requirement, especially in buying or selling something. But what about spiritual due diligence?
The call to be diligent in discernment requires weighing everything—what we watch, read, think, say, and do—against God’s character and commands. Doing this is not salvific in nature, meaning it does not save us. However, it is the evidence of active faith that reveals we have been saved.
