WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Sounds familiar? It is already Eastertide and my topic is about a Lenten question.
But it is a question which could still be lingering in the minds and hearts of everyone of us.
Many times we feel very distant from God, as if God is no more, as if God does not exist anymore. And yet at the back of our minds we know (for sure even those who deny God has that feeling which they just can’t understand) that He is still there, somewhere there in what we call Heaven. But we just can’t seem to get to Him.
Why?
It is not because He wants to be distant. It is not because He does not want to be close with us. In fact He really wants to be close to us. That is why He has sent His only begotten Son so that God and man might become one.
And yet we feel alienation, separation, perhaps even divorce from Him.
Why?
It is because of SIN!
Sin is the single most negative thing that keeps man from God. That makes man experience being away from God. That separates man from the eternity which God wishes him to have. That seem to divorce man from being united with his Maker.
Why?
Because SIN is a denial of God, an alliance with the Devil who was the first to alienate himself from his Maker.
Sin is the opposite of GOOD. Sin is bad, evil, dishonesty, unbelief, treason, lie, untruth, immorality, infirmity, moral and spiritual disease, etc. etc.
And since God and sin, Good and evil, truth and lie, cannot go together, man experiences alienation from God when he sins.
Believe me it is true. I have been away from God so many times i do know the feeling. But though I always fail Him, he keeps reminding me that i have to go back because it is only when I am under his grace that I can enjoy His friendship.
Many times i ask Him "why have you forsaken me?" especially when I fail to give my best in what I do, when I fail to get what I think I deserve, when I fail to be what I wish to be in life.
But then He asks me back, "you, why have you forsaken me in the first place?"
Then I realize it is not He who has forsaken me. It is my being sinful which keeps Him from giving me all the blessings that i could have as one of His adopted sons in His Son Jesus Christ our savior!
What a time to realize it than this very season of new life, of new hope and new being!
So each time you feel so far away from God, don’t ask anymore "why have you forsaken me?" instead ask yourself: "why did I forsake my God, Father and Friend?"
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