Waking up to the true meaning of life without a biological father and only a caring mother who hustles everyday to make me comfortable has been very challenging; A life where everyone is called “mommy” and every relation, “daddy”.
Looking back at that kind of life, I ask myself, “why in Heaven’s name do you complain? You have what, 20 parents? And yet you are not grateful…”
Everyday I remember, I read through the popular “everyone-can-narrate” verse of the bible, John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life”
and I wish I could make additions to this verse that a vast majority of the whole world has taken for granted. I want to let the whole world know what else God did asides giving His only begotten.
LIFE DOWN THE LANE…
For God so loved ME, that when I was rejected by my earthly father, He gave me another at the age of ten; one who took me through the best of education and comfortability, loving me in a way that even he, my earthly father, understands not.
For God so loved me that when I was a little kid, I knew Him as my daddy, when other kids talked of their own “daddies” and whenever I called on Him to take care of my day, my going out and my coming in, He made sure that I was kept free from hurt.
He so loved me that He never made me a failure as He took me through every phase, all the way, making me the best in all endeavours.
A lot of us have these testimonies, even more, but how grateful are we? This brings me down to the boiling point…
WHAT NEXT?
All these, even more He has shown us in His encompassing love, yet He has given us just ONE HEART to love Him back. Sometimes, I wish He gave me more than one heart, because just one is so little compared to the way I want to love Him.
Hmmm!! The way I want to love Him… just listen…
With ONE heart, I still sleep off all night and work myself out all day that I forget to say “Thank You Daddy for Today”, or “I Love You Lord”…
With ONE heart, I grumble when He asks for “just” 10% of my income, when I spend 30% on entertainment and a whole 40% on food… Oh! how I rob Him. (Malachi 3: 8)
With just ONE heart, I think about this guy I am so much in love with more than I think about God’s goodness. Out of 24 hours, I think of one I admire 16 hours of the day and sleep for 6 hours. Oh! What love I give in return…
I love Him with less than a heart, that’s why I’m with people who need help deep inside them and I either think twice about helping them or I just can’t reach out.
People are hungry and still I want to be filled up first before passing on the crumbs.
People are angry at their past and life issues and I am ungrateful about a change of mine.
People need only a smile to make them stronger and yet I tighten up my lips and deprive them of that smile of assurance they need so badly.
Just one heart, yet I ask for more…
I ask for more because I want to love Him more, I need to love Him more…
“… I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me” Matt 25:35-40
I tell you, this current lifestyle, compared to where I’m coming from and where I’m going in Christ Jesus, it’s just a show of LOVE, NOT ENOUGH…
HOW ABOUT YOU???
