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Sunday mornings are very emotional for me and many others — if you’re like me who sheds a tear or two everytime the choir starts singing ‘Oceans’ by Hillsong. It is the soberest time of the week, I feel the presence of God so much, we as Christians all know what it feels like. It is the best time to be with the lover of our soul, the mood is often so right that we feel so happy to be in His presence.
Our little rendezvous are usually filled with fun activities, God gets to say his mind, pour out Himself to us in a sermon. We get to say thank you using many funky new steps we learned recently to the rhythm of the drums. We slip in our requests, whether out rightly in supplicatory prayers or kabashing in tongues we know not the meaning of lol, or do we? — because Ibo is a tongue, no? You know the usual formality of our Sunday mornings.
But does He really want to see us right now?
We all battle unbelief in unique ways “Is he really here?”. Our hearts begin to find human logical explanations as to why prior prayer requests from as many Sundays before this one, have fallen on deaf ears. But what if —
What if our omniscient lover is sitting across the room from us sulking because the home we made for him in our hearts is currently on sublet to fleshly desires?
Have we been so self indulgent that we didn’t realise He had not slept ‘home' in a while? That we have been totally vulnerable to principalities and evil powers? Yet still unrepentant we dare show ourselves requesting for more gifts from his vast treasury.
Many seek the face of God for refuge in times of trials, for healing when sickness looms, for provisions when in need even when He is not pleased to see/with us.
Yuck.
The expression he has when we prance around in sin — rags soiled with feces and we come around him trying to stain his white.
Sin. A satanic concept that steadily robs us of our privileges as sons of God. A ‘one-time’ single-handed disqualifier from eternal salvation — thanks to Jesus. The only thing that separates us from the love of God
“Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you”
Jeremiah 5:25 NKJV
“But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you So that He will not hear.”
Isaiah 59:2 NKJV
Sin separates us from the Love of God
With love and more to come,
