How Does God Feel When We Walk Away?

Imagine that you have an evil friend and he coerced you into stealing something. You didn’t really want to because you knew better. Your father had told you it was wrong. But he talked you into it. Then afterwards he went and told your father who is a police officer that you did it.

Then subsequently, when you were in jail, you talked to him on the phone and he accused you of being a thief when he was responsible for talking you into it in the first place.

And, if that wasn't bad enough, he also told you that your father won’t ever forgive you for stealing. And that your father couldn't possibly love a thief. And he accused your father of being cruel because he let you go to jail.

But you know it’s all lies. Because you know your father loves you. And that he didn’t want you to go to jail. And you know that he already forgave you as soon as you talked to him and told him you knew what you did was wrong.

Satan is that evil friend.

Now lets imagine a different scenario:

Lets imagine that the boy that made the mistake of stealing is not you. Lets imagine that he is your son. And you are the police officer.

And lets imagine that your son listens to the evil friend instead of rebuking his lies. And he ignores you. And refuses to have anything to do with you because you let him go to jail instead of getting him out of it somehow. After all, you had the power! Why did you let him go to jail?

This breaks your heart. Because he is your son. And you only let him go to jail for his own good. You knew that if he didn’t go to jail that he would not learn from his mistake and that he would just get into more trouble with his evil friend.

And you knew that the evil friend was a bad influence on your son from the very beginning so you didn't want he and your son to be friends anymore. You had warned your son from the very start that the evil friend was evil and that he should stay away from him but he didn’t listen. And you thought by making him face the consequences of his actions that he would see the evil friend’s true colors and stay away from him. You only did it because you loved him.

But none of that mattered because your son didn’t believe that you did it for his own good. And he refused to listen to you. And he refused to have anything to do with you. Because he listened to his evil friend instead.

So for years your son ignores you. And you wait for him. And you still remember the day he walked away from you. And how your heart broke. And you wait, and you wait, and you wait. Because he is your son, and you’ll never stop loving him. And you’ll never stop waiting for him.

Now lets imagine one more scenario:

You are the son

and God is the father

That is how God feels when we turn away from him.

Wait. I forgot. We have to cover all grounds:

Lets imagine that the police officer had the power to remove the evil friend from his son's life. Even from the very beginning? Why wouldn’t he? He despises the evil friend, and his heart breaks every day for his son. And he misses him so much. But, most importantly, the evil friend is the only barrier between him and his son. So WHY wouldn’t he just dispose of him so that he doesn't have to suffer waiting for his son to return?

Because his son chose to have a relationship with the evil friend instead of the father, and NO ONE wants to force someone to have a relationship with them. So yes, the father could have destroyed the evil friend but that wouldn’t have changed the fact that the son would have chosen him over his father. And if his father were to destroy the evil friend just to make his son come back to him then his son really wouldn’t have made the choice to come back to him. He would have been forced. And if he had destroyed the evil friend from the very beginning before his son had a chance to talk to him then his son would have had no other choice but to talk to his father because the evil friend wouldn’t have existed. Which would be great for the father because he would have his son but it would be kind of sad because the son would have been forced to have a relationship with his father thus rendering him a prisoner in that he lacked the ability to choose another alternative. 

And, most importantly, the father knew that all the son had to do was choose to have a relationship with him instead of the evil friend and the evil friend would no longer have any influence on him thus removing the barrier between he and his son. Because the moment he did that, the evil friend would be gone.

*All God has ever wanted is a real relationship with us... and for us to talk to Him like we do our friends/family because He has always been with us.

Some like to ridicule Him and make statements like, why would an all powerful God need people to worship Him. But worship just= respect/adoration, and everyone wants their loved ones to show them that. But the word worship has a negative connotation to some now because of it’s religious association.

Anyway, God just wants us to love Him. That is all He wants… because He loves us so much.*

There's only one person in the world that you can trust will never leave you or forsake you-- and it's God/Jesus.