Your Affection Really Matters

Many at times, I have caught myself going down the memory lane of pain and sorrow. During such times, I either blame myself or God for whatever went wrong. I always come back to my senses when I remember my misery cannot change things that are now beyond amendment, I have to sit up and begin to count my blessings knowing that God has blessed me with life, children and all the other good things of life.

The enemy can destroy our joy in the Lord; he can remove our focus from the Lord and we begin to envy the world. A sister complained that since she repented, no man has approached her for marriage. She warned that if she didn’t meet her husband within the next six months, she would backslide and go back to her old boyfriends. That was the enemy trying to set her mind and affection on things on the earth. In heaven, there will be no marriage and to compromise her salvation for a man is a very poor exchange rate.

While communism was the order of the day in Russia, a brother was asked to give up his faith to spare his son from being tortured to death, as we watched the Gestapo force his son to swallow spoons after spoon of salt. He was tempted to give in but his suffering son managed to call out, ‘dad it is not worth it, God deserves all our love’. ‘What will it profit us if we get all we desire from the world and walk straight into hell? If we appreciate God, our affection would be for things that please Him. He deserves it.

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