- How we dare to devour God’s love -
God forgives us and then it takes us a long time to get going again?
But when we are really healthy and there with God, and we decide to sin, we do it in an INSTANT!
How odd is this? I know in my own journey with God that I have done just this, and it hurts me every time I just do what I have been ‘brain-washed’ to do (think, behave, believe) – go SLOW on getting back to serving God by His side. Surely one has to heal first, and this cannot be an instant thing. God can do absolutely ANYTHING that He wants to do and He can do it in an instant, but we as humans need to repair ourselves first before we can continue.
I’m sorry, but this just does not grate any cheese for me.
Let us, you the reader and me the typist, look at this whole debacle (or dewoofle if you must imaging it as being a bark of sorts) from two view-points.
First view-point may be a bit of a shocker, but I’ll just go ahead because I cannot hear your brain-waves.
Second view-point is an amazing way of looking! It’s with your eyes ‘wide’ open.
Now I’m sure you should be a tad little wee bit agitated; irritated by the mere fact of not reading anything of value in this paragraph?
Well, this is how I see Christians talk about this issue – they beat around the bush, or like some people I know, run around with life-sized plastic crayons bashing each other…who will buck-out first?!?
For starters, doing something that you know that you should not do and just doing it anyway because you can do it – you have a right to do whatever you please within the boundaries of the law of the land. Anything could be a relationship, or a meta physical object, so to speak.
In other words, not being good. Being ‘evil’ – simply put, sinning. A horrible word, but it must be mentioned.
So things with you and God are peachy (brilliant, beyond the clouds, okay, etc.) and there is always something that you are arguing about, or discussing on the way to work (as opposed to play). The kindness is there and felt at every breathing moment. The love that oozes out of you is contagious. You have a light inside that’s being exposed by the way you are in public.
Respected by your friends and treasured by your foes – you live by God. This is the way you strive towards. Conversing respectfully with the creator, our God.
And then this furry bear comes past and your eyes are cast from God towards this big bear. Now being a guy and knowing how tempting it is to read about a sin, with your imagination running wild inside and being caught out by some pixels on your screen, I’m going to stick with this fluffy bear. Some time passes and you battle to keep your thoughts away from the furry fluffy bear. You make the decision to nudge the bear. This bear becomes your friend. The bear is, and all you did was to make a decision to pay attention to this bear. Barely able to bear the conversations around and inside, you call out to an old friend who you hope can pull you out from under the throw-rug.
Once you were the greatest of friends. You shared a meal or two and discussed how to finance a car. Plans were made to spend an extra hour together. Now at your weakest hour, regretting your broken life, a call is made. “Jesus please forgive me for the choices I have made.”
In a quick prayer you settle and run away from your mistakes. Out of respect you keep to yourself, trying to understand why you went to the jungle. It’s too hard in the beginning, but your buddies keep you in check by keeping that cupboard empty. Tears drip down your face as you remember how close you were in your relationship with your friend. It’s back to the basics now. Building up trust. Doing it the human way.
God declared that He desires you in ways beyond your comprehension. The love for you is greater than a billion people could have for you. In fact it does not even come close. It’s crazy, but it’s a known fact that God carries you through the tough times.
Coming back to God is depicted as a process that takes a long time.
I do not believe that this could ever in the existence of Jesus be a true fact.
Why do I believe this?? Simple: God is love.
If my child had to burn my house down, I would drop everything out of love for my child and tend to my [broken, lost] child. My love would surpass the great divide between us, but because we are human it takes time before we are friends again.
Okay, yes. A bit extreme, but I hope you see my point?! This is how the world does, or so I imagine.
God says that His love is greater than the greatest love, multiplied by 7 billion to the power of ten to the third reoccurring, that we know of in existence. If this is God’s love for us, then why do we keep falling for the idea that we must earn God’s love again?
We are human and everything to do with everything that is all that God is, goes against the grain of humankind.
I must tell you that this is not something that I have ‘conquered’ – to be honest, all this goes beyond me. It goes zooming far higher than the Milky way, above and [a]way past my head.
I’m not saying that I understand God’s love. That is impossible for me to even dare to consider – it’d take more than a lifetime to understand God’s love for me and the every nation on this earth.
Think about this, my feeble attempt at grasping God’s love for those that sit by the feet of Jesus and venture (walk) with Him where ever He may go.
So our friends may take some time to welcome us back after we stab them in the back, or rip their hearts out with our broken toe nails, or offend them with some silly joke, or banish them from their lives by hating them for a season. This is how life on this broken planet rotates. Even after begging for forgiveness, by declaring that we shall not ever do the deed again, the relationship takes time to heal.
We hurt God everyday in every non-conceivable way, but if we choose to return to God’s loving friendship then we can simply walk away from what we were doing; respectfully go to Jesus, confess our evils and ask for forgiveness; and keep away from the actions that turned us [away] from God.
Now the next step is to tip-toe around inch by millimeter towards God?
Say WHAT!?!?!?!!
How dare we expect God’s love to be so slow and empty!!