Though the church at Ephesus was doing a lot of things right, they were guilty of leaving their first love… They had made deliberate choices to abandon—not their church… or their faith… or even their love for Christ… They made deliberate choices to put away their “first love.” Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man (p.46) – ‘The love of God is a delightful and affectionate sense of the divine perfections, which makes the soul resign and sacrifice itself wholly unto Him, desiring above all things to please Him, and delighting in nothing so much as in fellowship and communion with Him… (p.62) – ‘Love is that powerful and prevalent passion by which all the faculties and inclinations of the soul are determined, and on which both its perfection and happiness depend.’