Being forsaken is tough, painful! Being forsaken by someone who claims to love you and care for you is heartbreaking 💔, devastating! You never read those Hollywood divorces when people say "this marriage wasn't working for us anymore and we have chosen to go our separate ways, but we still have deep love for each other."😂 Sound like a joke right ? But at least these Hollywood statements are more straightforward than how many of us Christians treat God. Many in the church have forsaken the Lord while claiming to love, cherish and worship Him.
What does it mean to forsake the Lord and how can you tell if you are in the process of forsaken the Lord?
God is love! God is the source of love! We all seek for someone to love us, so why would we forsake the Lord who is the source of love? Why would "we shoot ourselves in the foot ? " In Jeremiah 2:13, the God says," my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and have dug out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." 😥 We forsake the Lord when we start to believe that He cannot satisfy all our wants and desires. We forsake the Lord when we start to think our problems are bigger than His abilities. Many are in the church who have no trust in God's ability to satisfy all their needs.
And so it is in our walk with Christ, we face the temptation to choose our old desires over Him. At different points in our walk we are tempted to believe that someone else, something else other than God will finally bring us the peace and joy that we lack. And so many of us are praying, but not praying for us to draw nearer to Christ. Many are oraying for God to give them the idol they desire, the idol that was separating them from God before we came to Him. To forsake the Lord is to choose our own desires above Him. If seeking a spouse is what consumes your mind, then your heart is slowly departing from the Lord and you are in the process of forsaken the Lord.
Many are in the church but in their hearts are divorced from the Lord already. You can be married with someone, live in the same house with them, sleep on the same bed with them and yet in your heart have forsaken them. It is the same with the Lord. If the Lord is not the priority in our lives, if we are not daily bringing our wants and desires to Him so that He may rule over them, we may be the preacher, the praise team leader, the deacon, the Pope of Rome and yet in the eyes of the Lord we have forsaken Him. If my desire to make money is stronger than my desire to spend time with God in prayer and meditation than I have forsaken the Lord for "broken cisterns."
All who are too busy for prayer and meditation upon God's Word have forsaken the Lord in their hearts. Over time their true nature will be revealed. Some will leave the church for a man/woman who is not a true believer. Others will leave the church because they have to work on the sabbath. Others will leave the faith because God didn't give them what they desired and when that happens, don't be surprised, know that the individual had already forsaken God in their hearts and now they are just tired of being a hypocrite and just letting the inner reality come out .
And so there will be a shaking. God will shake out of His church all who have forsaken Him to cling to their desires, idols, broken cisterns. God will not take to heaven anyone who's heart is not wholly committed to Him. And so my friends our choice today is clear, we must either forsake our sinful desires or our desires will cause us to forsake the Lord.
My prayer this day is Lord help me to forsake all desires that will lead me away from you, and help me to cling to you alone, for you are my fountain of living water and only you I will find true and lasting satisfaction. Help me Lord, give me the victory, in Jesus' name, amen 🙏🏾
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