Come Back To God Today, His Extravagant Love Is Waiting For You.

I met a young man who attends the same church as me this morning. He acted a bit embarrassed to see me but then we started to talk and I mentioned that I had not seen him in church lately. I had barely completed the sentence before he asked me if I had enough time to stand and talk. Of course I immediately had the time.

He then told me how he thought to stay away because a few days before one of the Sundays he somehow found himself smoking cigarettes and before the next Sunday, he was in fornication. He had a lot more to say but I thought it was unnecessary. The look on his face already was too painful to allow him go on. As a person, I am not easily moved by the looks on people’s faces but there was something about this look that touched my heart.

Such is the power of sin and the strength of pain that it can cause. Also, it describes the kind of joy the devil offers. One that is temporal and pleases the flesh immediately but the ultimate goal is pain. Whether you feel the pain immediately thereafter or a long time after, the point is you still feel pain. The worse kind of pain is the one that disconnects you from the ultimate source of life and joy; that pain is meant to destroy you and that is what the devil offers. Where like this young man, one starts to run away from God because of the sin and gets into deeper trouble, suffers emotional turmoil and may end up totally disconnected from God.

John 10: 10NLT “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

The pain the enemy brings does not even cause one to sorrow to repentance. It causes depression which is at the level of the flesh and anything you think to do to make you feel better will be incapable of doing so and will only take you deeper and deeper into the flesh moving you further and further away from God. There is a witness in the Spirit of every believer when we do wrong, God is unhappy because we have willfully disobeyed Him. That witness creates a Godly sorrow which works repentance. It’s a sorrow in the Spirit which cannot be assuaged by fleshly things. It is the kind of sorrow that drives you to your maker, father and the true lover of your soul.

2 Corinthians 7: 10NLT “For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death”

If you are reading this blog and you are in the same state as the young man I saw this morning, please know that God feels your absence. He misses you a whole lot and is longing for your return. Whilst He is unhappy about your disobedience, I believe your returning is more important to Him. It is so important that He shed the blood of His son for this purpose.