Just as my number of posts has waned of late, it seems my prayer life has taken a hit as well. Christ has once again called me back into a life of communion with Him, as He has for some time. I have, time and again, ignored His call on my life to turn back to Him and seek His face again.
It never fails though, whenever we are lacking in our faithfulness to Christ, He always calls us back lovingly and kindly. He so longs for our affections that when we at last do return to His side, He holds no record of the amount of time we've spent elsewhere, nor of what we've done during that time. Imagine, if you will, how painful it would be if Christ were to recount to us all of the things that we've done that has displeased Him during our period of absence. He, of course, is never absent from our lives; He is always by our side, even when we would rather He weren't. He knows and sees all of our misdeeds and wrongdoings and how we betray Him by our thoughts, speech and actions but He never takes that step of making us feel awful for what we've done. There is much we can learn from this; so many times we are wronged by someone, even if it's something minuscule in the grand scheme of things, but if we feel it's big enough to catch our attention, it's enough for us to, if nothing else, let that person know just how they've made us feel and how they've wronged us. Christ knows nothing of that sense of entitlement that we feel, that leads us to retaliate in anger.
This is yet another way in which we can learn from our own mistakes and from Christ's lack thereof.
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