Will You Stop Loving God If He Took It Away?

 


DAILY VITAMIN 

- Will You Stop Loving God If He Took It Away?

"Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?" (Romans 8:35 AMP) 

In Job 1:11, the devil was so confident that if God took all away from Job, he would desert Him. So now I'm asking you, will you stop loving God if He took all away from you? I think that's the only question life asks us. Life is like a pressure cooker; it cooks you with the intention to either cause you to melt away or to get stronger. And every temptation and test we face are based on this truth. 

Many a person have become atheists and agnostics not because they never once believed in God, but because they assumed He touched something they could never "forgive" Him for. So much of our unbelief is as a result of the pain of having lost something important - a job, a child, a partner and what have you. Yet it doesn't change that this is all God wants to know: If He took everything, will you still love Him? 

Consider Abraham. He prayed for others to be fertile and they were, and still it appeared as though his prayers couldn't work in his own life since he was still childless at this point. Haven't you experienced such a test? Well, I have. But God was testing Abraham to see if he loved the need of a child more than he did Him. And he passed that. Then He gave him a child and demanded to have him killed to test if he loved the idea of not losing a child more than he did Him. He also passed this. But the scripture tells us that God never had the intention of keeping Abraham without a heir in both instances (Hebrews 11:19).

That is the way He tests us. It might come in different areas since our interests are different, but one thing is sure - God wants us loving Him first above all else (see Job 1:9-11). Job knew this and proclaimed that though God should slay him, he would still trust Him (13:15). Can you say the same?  Paul wrote "But none of these things move me; neither do I esteem my life dear to myself, if only I may finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have obtained from [which was entrusted to me by] the Lord Jesus..." (Acts 20:24 AMP). Hope you can say the same. Like the hymn writer, when others could have given up on God, he said it is well. Though he lost all he ever had, yet he refused to lose God too. Let that be you today - a person who will stick to God regardless of what may or may not be. 

Today's Exercise:

Reflect on where you stand presently in regards to this question, and then prayerfully receive grace to stay loving God in spite of circumstances. Do that now! 

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