Back when we were kids, we would leave our house to a neighboring compound or a friend's house across the street to play. Most times we stay there till night neither playing nor watching a movie from a colored boxed television (rare).
Most of us that grew up in a fenced mansion, bungalow, or family compound may not attest to this. Back in the days face me I face you compound big boys with only pants and bare body, and motorcycle tire Bentley/G-wagon owners can relate to that funfair experience.
Once it's getting dark and probably carried away by the fun of the time, our parents will match in like an army battalion and drag us with our motorcycle tire Bentley/G-wagon home. All the beating and smacking like one playing gangan (talking drums) we received while being dragged are reflex actions that are not to be counted as part of the beating yet to be received when we get home.
This made us wonder about the kind of wicked parents we have then. We will be wondering among us why our parents will intentionally be denying us this fun of a lifetime. They fail to understand that we just stepped into the peak of the fun. Will they play with us when we get home? Or will they buy the television for us to watch at home? Why drag us from where we are getting what they are not offering?
Anyways, you wouldn't blame us for thinking in such a manner. No matter what our tender brains were telling us then, our parents are our owner and because of their Love, they will always drag us to where we belong, which is HOME.
Meditating on that now made me understand what love truly is. I understand that love will always desire us to stay where we belong and truly love. Distraction most times looks pleasant and enticing, but love wouldn’t mind taking us through the hard path of purpose and fulfillment. This love might come through mentoring, coaching, discipline, and discipleship.
On the other hand, the experience made me ponder on the kind of Love God shows to us. He will come and pick us from where we don't belong and place us where we are meant to be. Most times He will even drag some of us out of situations that don’t look like Him in us. What a Father!
God picked me out of my mess and gave me salvation in His son Jesus. He always watches my back and ensures I find my route back HOME even when I stray from Him.
On countless times, He will drag me out of a lustful destructive journey of mine, and take me back to Himself. Oh! What manner of Love is this?
And He is always willing to do that for us any day anytime in any situation. Not mind the circumstance. This post might be God dragging you back to Himself. He has not given up on you and this I am sure. That situation that doesn't look like Him, He wants to take you out of it.
Just ask Him to come.
Tell Him how much you need Him
Just stretch your hands for His, He will come.
He will take you to where you belong, a HOME in Him.
A state of relationship with him.
The state we get help from Him