𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑫𝑶 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑭𝑬𝑬𝑳 𝑺𝑬𝑹𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑮𝑶𝑫 𝑩𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑲𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻?

𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑫𝑶 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑭𝑬𝑬𝑳 𝑺𝑬𝑹𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑮𝑶𝑫 𝑩𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑲𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻?

I just finished having my Bible study and my mind was straying. I was overthinking and almost in tears. All I could say was, ‘hold me God, Don’t hurt me.’

Immediately I got a response : ‘𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑒?’

I paused for some seconds, and almost argued that. I mean, who can hurt a big God. You won’t feel it at all, you’re big.

But I caught myself and started thinking about the response.

Many of us unconsciously believe God is strong enough to bear it when we hurt him, so some of us don’t stop to think about what hurt does to God.

I mean, he’s the all powerful God, isn’t he?
You know, sometimes we do these things unintentionally without even knowing what we’re doing.

We don’t stop to think about what this sin we call little does to God.
We believe God is so big and powerful and so he doesn’t have feelings. And even if he has feelings, you don’t think He’ll feel it like that, we always believe humans hurt more.

We’re all about ourselves, many times. We can’t even blame ourselves, because we can only carry as much as our physical strength permits.

“Save me, God.”
“Don’t let this issue drown me.”
“Oh God, if this problem ruins me, I don’t think I’ll ever get over the hurt.”
“Don’t let me hurt, God.”

Ourselves.
I.
Me.
You.

May we get to the level where we think about how our sin hurts God too.
Where we can not just think about ourselves only, but about God too.

Yes, he’s big.
Yes, he’s all powerful.
Yet, even at that he didn’t want to be by himself so he gave his son so he could have you. To have you, he had to defeat sin and nail our fleshy desires on the cross.

(𝐵𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑙𝑒𝑡’𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠, 𝐺𝑜𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑢𝑠.)

He’s a pure God, so he made provision for your own purity and righteousness by making his beloved son purchase that for you.

Blood spilled.
Nails pierced through flesh.

All in the process of God making provision for your purity.

Now, that you’re here.

You confessed his son as Lord and you believed in your heart.

But you still stray, we still stray, going to the same cross where he nailed our fleshy desires on the cross to bring back those desires.

Now, go back and think about the process it took God to finally have you to himself.

I don’t know how you see that, but it’s another level of serving breakfast to our heavenly Father.

Imagine you serving God breakfast, you no dey fear?

𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒?
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜?