When I think of The Judgement Day, I feel as though there would be a separate place and judgement pronounced on church kids. 
You
Know, we grew up in church, know God’s word in and out to an extent,
pray and sometimes hear from God and still harbour a lot of foolishness ;
sin. I feel so bad to even pray because somehow I just feel deep down
that “hey, you know, after this prayer, you are still going right back
to what you are praying about”. So I stopped praying, yea I did. I
couldn’t stand going back and forth with God in prayers, taking
advantage of his mercifulness and I know a lot of us feel this way
sometimes. I thought I could handle it by myself and then run back to
God after I have handled it to an extent and meet God to complete the
rest but damn was I wrong! The farther you go from God, the closer you
get to the world, the devil and everything you think you are trying to
leave. God has never once complained about being tired of being
merciful. So, u better drop all that foolishness and return to God. You
fall once, pick yourself up and turn to God. You fall again, go to God.
You fall again and again, run to him. Just like Joseph, don’t let go
until he answers you.
“May
we continue in sin that grace may abound, God forbid!”-the fact that
God is merciful and ever ready to forgive should not be a yardstick for
us to continue in sin knowing when we feel like it, we could present
ourselves to God in remorse. It should be from a sincere heart. The
relationship we have with God can be likened to a long white smooth rope
with you holding it at one end and God at the other. When you cut it in
the middle, it creates a gap. (That gap being sin and or whatsoever can
strain ones relationship with God). You Knot it right back together,
and another cut and another cut and another. You knot and knot until the
rope is no longer that white smooth rope it was at the beginning. It
now looks so rough that one’s hand can’t slide through smoothly. But
look closely, for each cut and knot, the rope became shorter. There by
bringing you closer to the other end – God. Every challenge and trial in
our life is nothing but a stepping stone to bring us closer to God as
long as you recognize that. So when a challenge faces you, you don’t
give up on yourself or God, you don’t throw d rope and get new one to
start afresh? No! You pick yourself up. You get that loose end of that
rope and knot it. Didn’t God say his thoughts towards us are thoughts of
good and not of evil to bring us to an expected end? Hold him to his
word. You go on your knees and remind him of his word in that your
situation. Give him a dare. “Oh if ye b God indeed, prove your word in
my life”. Then you let go and let God be God. Let God have his way. “If
God wants to take all the glory, let him do all the work; take rest in
God” - Joseph Prince. We can never phantom how the mind of God works so
somewhere along the line in that storm, bad things may happen. People
you love may die, secrets may come out, diseases might set in, people
may hate you. But child of God, you don’t give up. If u know deep down u
have wrong God, amend your ways because ‘‘the prayer of a sinner is an
abomination to the Lord’’. So you have to first, no matter how horrible
your life has been, go to God in prayers
and ask for forgiveness sincerely from the depth of your heart. When
you made that decision to serve him, God didn’t promise a bed full of
roses all through the journey. But one thing he did promise is that he
would be there for you through whatever storm. All you have to do is
reach out to him and he will get you.
and ask for forgiveness sincerely from the depth of your heart. When
you made that decision to serve him, God didn’t promise a bed full of
roses all through the journey. But one thing he did promise is that he
would be there for you through whatever storm. All you have to do is
reach out to him and he will get you.
to be continued...
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