So you left or was swept away and life kept happening. But no matter the moments of exhilaration, there was this knowing. This nagging discomfort that reminds you that something so dear is missing. It feels like agony. It feels like anxiety.. But you keep going because you’ve gone too far. The road back seems just as hard as the road you’re on that is leading you further away. As so it seems… But that place of  inward joy is what you deeply want to return to: “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink (tangible); but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost”(Romans 14:17, KJV Emphasis mine).

The infamous question: how did I get here? The disbelief you could get this far away… That feeling can be so overwhelming. But I want you to know, though it’s overwhelming, it’s the love of Christ working in you. It’s His deep desire to let you know that He wants you just as much and more than your desire to come back. I honestly often wonder about this love God has for us.. it has no reason behind it. We haven’t earned it. But He loves us “But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us” Romans 5:8, AMP. 

In your heart you want to come back to Christ in every way. Whether you’re inside or outside the church building.. it may  feel impossible to get back to the road with Christ where devotion was so true so pure.  But “the things which are impossible with men are possible with God” Luke 18:27, KJV. He is that true light that shines in the darkness, that deep darkness where you feel no light can shine. God wants to show you that He can shine His light in those dark places.  

So the way back is simpler than it looks and feels.  I won’t tell you that it’s easy… But don’t try to figure out all the things that are wrong. Just do what is right, come back. Though you’ve been scarred, you are a vessel that God wants to heal. I can’t help but think of the Potter and the Clay… One thing to notice is  the Potter is making a vessel. In the process, the vessel becomes marred.. disfigured.. damaged.  But no matter how marred, the vessel was in the Potter’s (God’s) hands: “And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again  another vessel, as it seem good to the potter to make it” Jeremiah 18:4, KJV.  So I say to you, take the hope of being made again and use it as strength to make your way back.  

Jesus Loves You and so do I

With open arms you’re welcomed 

Until Next Time 

Let’s Be Converts