Friday, August 16, 2019

God Never Leaves

So I was actually about to start writing about a completely new topic when I felt a tug at my heart to write on this topic instead; it was not even a topic I was thinking about writing about, but when God gives you something you run with it. So here I am reflecting on the past 23 years of my life and how God has played such a radical part in those years. Throughout everything I have put God through, He still has never left. Even in the moments of me blaming my struggles on Him the most, He still embraced me every time with open arms when I returned. It blows my mind that He deserves so much better than me, but stays anyways. Something I believe everyone is guilty of is asking God why and accusing God of leaving us in the darkness; the funny thing is, God never leaves, we do. I believe that so often we have a problem with getting comfortable where we are and then doing our own thing from there. Our own thing may not even be anything bad, but we fail to continue on our path with God and ultimately leave Him behind as we "progress". As human beings we are too stubborn to see our own faults because in our eyes they were the best for us; this leads us to then blame God for failing us, when we have in fact failed God. When in this place, we begin to wonder why God allowed us to be here, but we allowed ourselves to be here when we began to place God on the back burner. Feelings of abandonment and betrayal towards God come to light, but the irony is that that is the exact thing we have been doing to God.
The definition of forsake is to abandon, renounce, and turn away from entirely. There are at least 7 verses of the Bible that state that God will never forsake or leave us.
Deuteronomy 31:6 says, "He will never leave you nor forsake you."
Deuteronomy 31:8 says, "He will never leave you nor forsake you."
Joshua 1:5 says, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
1 Kings 8:57 says, "May He never leave us nor forsake us."
Psalm 37:28 says, "For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake His faithful ones."
Psalm 94:14 says, "For the Lord will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance."
Hebrews 13:5 says, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
It is Biblical that He will never leave us, but yet after we leave Him we blame Him for the lies we have been feeding ourselves; we fail to acknowledge the Biblical truths.
Not every bad thing is our fault and some difficult situations that we face are a part of God's plan for our lives, but never once does God ever leave us. If God really did leave us, why would He ever take us back when we return to Him? We already do not deserve the tiniest bit of God, but yet He still is here. Why would He take back such undeserving people if He wanted to leave them forever in the first place? John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." Why would He sacrifice His only son, for people He wants to leave? Someone who does not want to leave will never leave, but will stay as God always does. I believe many of the times we accuse God of leaving, we are forgetting that He is so much greater than us. Unlike us, God is full of grace, forgiveness, and unconditional love; you will never find that in any human, but will always find that in God. God loves us too much to leave, which is why He will forever continue to wait even in our worst betrayals.

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