10/02/2024
Lately, I enjoy going to fancy restaurants more than ever before. Not just because of my love for food, but my new fascination with people.
I like to sit a far off and watch two people attempt to relate with one another and wonder how long it will take them to break even or find common ground.
That beautiful point where after shaking a coca cola can for too long...(read: each person focusing on their own interests).... the force that's between the two parties' individual needs and wants cracks the can open and kaboom.....all the gas spills some of the coca cola out, until there's only enough left to be enjoyed.
That part when we finally consider the other person's needs before ours. Humility, you can call it.
The whole picture is such a precise illustration of our relationship with God. Take an example of a Christian that goes to church so that God can give them this that and the other.
I'm so thankful that God is nicer than man. God will give us a thing or two to hook us unto Himself as His word vigorously digs into our sturbon minds until it strips us of our intellect and points us to how we can benefit His Kingdom.
What blew my mind away the other day was the realization that even though He has given us the liberty to choose good or evil, it is actually more than to my benefit if i choose good.
I have heard severally that salvation is a personal journey, but last night as I flipped through the book of Hosea, the silent and most frequently ignored part of chapter 4 verse 6 slapped me in the face.
The harsh realization that it is all well and good for me to ignore seeking the knowledge of God, but my children whom I love so much. The ones I spend tons of money on to take them to good schools will be forgotten by God when it comes to prosperity.
Hosea 4:6 - "My people"....(please not the 'My'. The ones who confessed me as their Lord and savior)..."are destroyed for lack of knowledge"...(it sounds like an individual consequence. Right? Listen to what follows next, because up until now, I didn't know this last part. And I'm not blaming the preachers that have stood before me all of my Christian life. Their duty was to point me in the right direction, my duty was to come back and investigate the scriptures....you know? 'Test every spirit...' kind of thing).... "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest before Me"... (well well, Daddy Dearest, i didnt think i was anointed to stand before people every Sunday and speak).... "Because you have forgotten the law of God, I also will forget your children."
This right here is where I stopped to breathe. Because you see I love my children. And now it turns out that God will hit me where it hurts the most, i.e., FORGET MY CHILDREN, if I don't up my game by approaching Him with the intention of knowing Him, as opposed to pushing my agenda.
These are the things the evangelists never told me when asking me to give my life to Christ. No they did not. (Well, somebody has to take the blame. Right?)
I'm not even going to dwell on the lovely people that have been dropping this scripture around in halves. I just know one thing: From today hence forth, I will purpose to know the LORD, and teach my children as well, so that the One who said that He will never let His Word return to Him without it prospering in the thing for which He sent it, does not forget my children. 😭
to the bedroom to read her Bible #