Getting Back To God

There was a man who served God with a great love and devotion in his early Christian life. He spent his time with God everyday and experienced the joy of union with the Most High. His heart was focused only to Jesus Christ as he worshiped and sang praises. He scared the devil every moment without knowing because God was with him.

His life was completely transformed as people around him noticed the glory that covers him. He gladly enjoyed being a blessings to others by encouraging the downtrodden and by lifting their burdens in prayer. And he prayed like God is in front of him. He was a good testimony to all the people he interacts with because of of his life. He was firmedly in tuned with the Father.

He vowed to God that he will serve and love Him as long as he lives. " Oh God, take this life as an offering, I surrender everything", he sincerely prayed.

As he continuously served, God gave him the favor that everything he asks will be answered. Yet with all the blessings of God in his life, there seems a moment that his devotion was disrupted by unidentified struggles of the soul and spirit.

There was a time that a thought came into his mind that he doesn't need to go to church anymore because he could still connect to God anywhere he goes. So he stopped attending Sunday services for several weeks, months, year. He still believed that God was with Him and he was feeling the Spirit of God. What he didn't realize was his daily morning prayer that was being shortened everyday until he can no longer stand in the presence of God. His devotion to the Word was soon disappeared.

His prayer life was dead and so does his spiritual life. The glory that was upon him was no longer there. It was not that God departed from him but that he departed from God. The man who was, back then, so closed to God is too far from heaven that he can't even utter prayers. The man who was bold enough to come to the throne is now afraid of God.

Back then he loved the music of heaven, now he doesn't care what he is listening to. He had loved the fellowship of his brethren, now he is in the "fellowship of men". He had consumed his eyes in meditating the word of God, now the television is his past time. Not only that, his life is beginning to mess up.

This man who had spent most of his life in the presence of God has lost everything because he departed from the Master. Yes, there is a tendency for a Christian to go to the wrong direction. Once a person has left God, then God won't be with Him any longer.

Are you in the same situation as this man? Have you departed from the love of God? Do you miss those moments of intimacy with God? If so, why don't you give everything back to God? If you can't, let Him take it.

"I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot endure evil men,and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you, and will remove your lampstand out of its place-unless you repent." (Revelation 2:2-5)