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Sometimes I wonder why I chose to seek God as my last choice for solving the problems of life. I guess it is because I did not have faith to believe that God could help me with the difficulties of my life, my discontentment, and even my bitterness. It is also possible that I had never seen someone go through their difficulties with God. Truly I had never seen anyone pray about an urgent problem and get an answer or resolution from God.
I was that prodigal daughter that left what I knew was right in Father’s sight. I went off down the road of life without his blessing. With me, I took whatever the Father had provided for me in life and wasted it in riotous living. Reality began to hit one day about the pig pen of sin that I found myself in. I started to realize I needed help. So I joined myself to the ways of the religious world even as the prodigal son found someone he could work for by tending the pigs. The prodigal son was so hungry for something to satisfy his hunger that he even thought about eating the pigs’ food. In the same way, I thought religion was what I needed, but I didn’t realize the food, God’s word, was fouled by false teachings. (Luke 15:11–32) Thank God someone was praying for me! They kept inviting me to Father’s house- the Church of God. They saw me coming down the road. Deep inside of me I knew that Father would take care of me, even if I just came to Him as a servant with the same attitude as the prodigal son when he came home. That little seed of faith of believing that God was the answer helped me to keep heading toward the Father. One day the word of God showed me that I was not a child of God – that I was separated from the Father by my sins. I came to myself like, the prodigal son, and knew I had to get back to where I could be with the Father. I needed to be saved from my sinful life through the blood that Jesus shed. As I stood in the Church of God during the closing song, the pastor invited anyone that had any need to come up to the altar and pray so God could supply their need. I knew I had a need to be close to the Father and it didn’t require anyone to convince me. When I knelt at the altar and asked God to help me to live like he wanted me to, I meant it and God saved me. The other choices I had made to make my life better had failed; they had not satisfied my need. But when I finally chose God, I found that he could supply all my physical and spiritual needs. He has satisfied my soul and how many times I have wished he had been my first choice! If you choose him for the solution of your life and give up your way, you’ll never be sorry. Make him your first choice now.
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