It’s so important to look at how things began and assess if the purity of original passion and intent is still on track. Many great endeavors have begun well and found themselves off course and needing to recalibrate. A scriptural account of this is found in Revelation chapter 2:1-7 when Jesus addresses the Church of Ephesus. He began with a strong word of commendation of all they had done right; their work and patient endurance, opposing evil, identifying false apostles, enduring patiently, bearing up for His Name’s sake, and not growing weary. But then He addresses a serious flaw in their present condition…they had left, not lost, the love they had for Him at the first. This is a Church where Paul poured out three years of his life teaching and shedding countless tears. (Acts 20:17-38) This was a Church where his departure brought them great distress and their own shed tears. Yet here we find them being called to remember from where they had fallen; called to remember the relationship they once had with Him, called to REPENT AND GO BACK and do the works they did at FIRST. It’s true that sometimes we must GO BACK to GO FORWARD. The reward of a willingness to heed this call is personal revival.  A very severe consequence of refusing this admonition is an inability to continue to give light to others and a loss of postion in His kingdom. This is a “valley of decision” we all come to at some point…do we “have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church”?