Dearest,
I am so grateful to the almighty God for the
beautiful precious gift of my life and today.
I owe Him all my life and what I'm worth.
Just this evening, I was lying in bed and asking
myself why I'm not able to do things right for God. I keep wondering why my heart is always
hungry and thirsty after God and yet I seem to do just the opposite. With tears rolling down my eyes I kept asking
God why I couldn't do the right thing for Him, living the perfect life for
Him. It even seems that each time I try
hard to do it, that is even when I make the most mistakes. Oh how my heart longs for Him morning,
afternoon and evening. Each day, my
heart's cry is that I get closer and closer to God, walking and living
perfectly for Him. I do the best I can
to be perfect, but I always end up being worst than before.
Do you remember what it was like when we first
met Jesus? It was perfect, wasn't
it? Everything was just great. All we had to do was to be there and He would
do the rest. We believed in God, His
love for us and His ability to lead us.
We realised that we were just babes so we honestly needed God more that
anything. We sought Him as a child would
seek or cry out for milk.
Do you
remember how you could never get enough of God and wanted always to have more
and more of Him? We would buy every
Christian literature we could lay our hands on and go to prayer meetings,
church programmes, bible study groups, etc just to get a little bit more of God
into our lives. We would wail and groan
for hours on end just to be with a God we could never get enough of. Do you remember praying and fasting for
people just to come to the realisation of Christ 's love, or just to help solve
their problems or ease the pain they were in.
You see we were babes and we had the simple
belief of babes and God honoured that.
But now we so boldly call ourselves grown and wiser and we find
ourselves in the same soup that Solomon found himself in. He was wise and his wisdom gave him quick
solutions but it took him away from God.
Let's go back to 1kings 3 from
4-15, when God appeared to Solomon and asked Him what he wanted.
He said that Solomon should‘ask for whatever he
wanted and Solomon asked for wisdom to govern the people and God honoured
that. But what Solomon refused to
realise was that, that wisdom was given to govern God's people and not his
relationship with God. See ,there is no
wise way to worshipping God.
A wise person once said that what distinguishes
a genius from an ordinary person is that a genius always looks at things with
the enthusiasm of a child. Everything,
no matter how old, is new to that person, they are exited about everything you
show them and wouldn't wait to explore and find more about what they have. To them everything is a new adventure, and
yet another opportunity to learn more.
And that is the kind of heart God requires of us.
See,
there is no wisdom in worship, neither is there any wisdom in fellowship with
God because we will always be His children, His babes, and He will always be
our father. Do you know that when a
child grows up, the father ceases to be responsible for him, and will only give
his advice when asked? Well, when we
become too grown or wise, we outlive God's usefulness in our lives; we start to
live in different houses and God is only useful for the occasional pieces of
advice we go to Him for.
You know what even becomes sadder, we seem to
think it's now our responsibility to give back to God what he has given us,
thus we do things our own way, all in the name of being matured
Christians. When are we as Christians
going to realise that the maturity that God gives us is for the edification of
the body of Christ and not for our relationship with Him? He gives us maturity and wisdom for
government and not for our person-to-person worship to Him.
Look at David, he had a child's heart and God
called him the man after His own heart.
Solomon had a wise heart and it is said that even Solomon in all his
splendour was not decorated in heaven.
It's about time we dropped the matured heart and
went back for the child's heart, so we can move on for we have been in this
place of unproductivity for way too long. Let's go back to the ancient paths
and let's worship and seek God.
Love you lots but God loves you so much
more. Child, go back to your father
because you are not done growing yet.
Baaba.
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