Auto-Save Assumptions: Taking it for Granted and a “First Love” Lost
0I saw a game pop up on Microsoft’s Game Pass service that I remembered being a lot of fun… an older game that I couldn’t recall if I had ever finished. I downloaded it, played a few levels, and then turned my console off and went about my “adulting” priorities for the day. The next day I had a little down time and decided to play another level or two, so I booted it up and rolled my Katamari around for a few more minutes… and the whole time I was thinking this felt VERY familiar. Granted, it is a fairly repetitive game, but this was RIDICULOUSLY repetitive. I shrugged it off, knocked out several levels, and went back to my normal life activities. A few days later I picked it back up again, and as I booted up the game I saw that my previous progress wasn’t there AGAIN. The horrifying realization of what I had done began to slowly wash over me… this game did NOT feature an auto-save.
Join us as we reflect on the reality that our original “game save” with Christ was not the end of the journey… it was the BEGINNING. Just as my Katamari Damacy experience required me to stop playing the game and intentionally take the time to save it, the Lord is seeking us to stop what we are doing FOR Him and spend time WITH Him. It is easy to take our relationship with Him for granted and lose ourselves in the busy-ness of this “game of life”… let’s press pause today and get back to that “first love” feeling with the One who loved us first (1 John 4:19), loved us deepest (Ephesians 3:18-19), and will continue to love us with that same everlasting love through eternity and beyond (Jeremiah 31:3).
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