What does Jesus Christ mean when he talks about first love? Can you describe it in any way? The first love is the love we had for Jesus the first time we met him. It is that love that made our hearts beat faster when we thought of him. But it was not just emotion. It was also action. It is that love that was willing to do everything if the loved one said it. How much we lack this kind of love for our Lord. True? I have always wondered and I will continue to ask myself, how much of what is done in the local churches starts from a sincere and loving devotion to the Lord? Because I'm afraid that most of the local churches today look a lot like the church in Ephesus. On the outside they are beautiful, for their work and dedication, but inside they are eaten away by that cancer of having left their first love. It is the claim of Jesus Christ to the church of Ephesus.