Rediscover Him

Question: How is your walk with the Lord?  Is it vibrant and exciting or have you become complacent and lukewarm?  Have you allowed sin to separate you from your God and have you lost your peace and joy and feel like you are barely hanging on to the little faith you have?  Do you feel forsaken and all alone because of your own actions and God seems nowhere to be found and when you pray it seems like all is darkness around you and your prayers are falling on deaf ears?  

Let me assure you that you are not alone.  I have been there and experienced that and I believe there have been many others that have been there with some being there now.  Sin always results in consequences and it always brings separation between us and our God.  When we feel separated from God it is because we moved away from Him, He doesn’t move away from us.  Remember God is so holy that He can’t even look at sin.  Remember when Jesus said this, while hanging on the cross dying for our sin, in Mark 15:34, “And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Jesus knew that there would be a temporary separation between Him and His Father when He took upon Himself the sins of the world, as was prophesied in Psalm 22:1, which was why He agonized in the garden of Gethsemane.  The physical agony was terrible, but the spiritual separation was far worse.  When you feel this way maybe you will have to rediscover God by confessing and repenting and asking the good Lord to forgive you.  Read what it says in 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

I think it would be good for you to read Hebrews 12:5-13, “And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:

‘My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,

Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;

For whom the Lord loves He chastens,

And scourges every son whom He receives.’

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.”

When Peter denied the Lord, not once but three times, he repented and went out and wept and he was forgiven and restored.  King David, when He sinned against God with Bathsheba and had her husband killed, repented and was restored and God called Him ‘a man after His own heart’ even though it took Him almost a year to repent.  You can read his repentant prayer in Psalms 51:1-19.  

If you find yourself in this situation, because of sin in your life or maybe you are backslidden and discouraged, I want to encourage you to repent and confess and ask the Lord to forgive you.  Then start rediscovering Him and His precious peace, love and joy and His forgiveness and restoration.  Spend time with Him and lay the foundation of a special relationship with Him again.  Read His Word, His love letter to you, praying for wisdom and ask Him to help you put the things into practice that you read.  Also ask the Holy Spirit to teach you and to bring the truths you read back to your remembrance when you need them.  Jesus said in Jeremiah 29:13, “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”  Spend time with Him in fellowship and prayer and rediscover Him.  Something to think about, may the good Lord bless you and yours and may you have a super day!!