know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance … You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: you have forsaken the love you had at first’ (Rev. 2:2-4). It is remarkable, if we pause to consider it, how this so perfectly expresses the state of so many of us today. We are hardworking, and persevering, but God is holding out his hands to us, wanting to woo us back to our first love. This ‘first love’ calling is revealed throughout