You missed the reunion

My dear loved one,

     I came to your church today and was so excited to worship and pray with you.  It was going to be great to come and give you that hug that you have needed so bad during this difficult time.  I have heard your prayers over and over saying how alone you feel and how you need me by your side, so I thought I would come face to face with you and what better place than your church to meet?  I just knew you would be there since you have expressed your love for me and the Father and how you have said you put us first in your life.  Where are you, my dear loved one?

   I started thinking and wondering what the reason for not being there.  Nobody seemed alarmed that you weren't there and I started thinking of the excuses I have heard from so many of why they don't come and wondered if one of these were your excuse.  

                                                                                                                                   Could it be that family was coming in?  I hope not because I gave you your precious family and they are a blessing to you from me, but you have so many other times to see them or could even bring them with you to church.  What better way to spend time with them than to come and worship me together.  I love seeing loved ones come together to church worshipping and serving together and then they go and eat together afterwards.  What a wonderful thing to have and see.  But, I'm your family...in fact, I'm your creator.  If it wasn't for me you wouldn't have life, breath, this beautiful creation you enjoy every day, the birds singing, the butterflies, the flowers, or your dear loved ones.  I'm your creator, I'm your Father, I'm your brother, I'm your friend, I'm the King of kings, I'm the Lord of lords.  Why would anyone come before me when I gave them to you?  Should I treat you the way you are treating me and put someone else ahead of you?  Do you realize what would happen to you if I did that?  You would stop breathing, your life would come crashing down if I said "oh, well I'm going to go spend time with this other person because you aren't as important."  No, I would never forget about you and put someone else ahead of you.  Why do you do that to me? 

  I thought of another excuse I have heard over and over and that is that you had something more exciting to do...something entertaining.  How could anything be as good and fulfilling as coming to church and hearing the precious words that I have given you and being with other fellow Christians?  I am totally for good wholesome entertainment.  I have given it to you so you can relax and enjoy yourself, but why would you use that against me?  Why would you use your money and time that I have given to you and use it for something other than what I gave it to you for?  I am a jealous God and I have seen you every evening this week sit in front of the t.v. and various other things for entertainment and you can't give me at least an hour and half a week?  You should be here with your brothers and sisters in Christ studying my Word, singing praises, going to Bible studies, and serving me.  What will that entertainment do for you that I and your fellow Christians can't do?

   Is your job what is keeping you from me?  I hope you aren't using your job against me when I provided that job for you.  If you can't come on a Sunday morning, come in the evening, or come to another Bible study during the week.  There are so many options and no excuses.  Just remember that the Lord giveth and he taketh away.

   Maybe you say you are just too tired.  Look around you...there are plenty of people around you that are just as tired if not more, but they have a love and commitment to me that you don't.  I have seen you over and over again say you are too tired to come to church or do something for serving me and yet you don't have any problems getting up for a barbeque at your friends house or going to a ballgame or whatever might stand in the way for coming here.

   I've also heard "well, the pastor is boring.  I don't really like what he is teaching right now."  Do you know that he spent a lot of time praying and studying for this message and I gave it to Him?  He is speaking the words I gave Him.  I had something in it just for you today that would have helped you draw closer to me.

   "Well, he offended me a long time ago."  I hear you say.  I have offended a lot of people and still do  They don't like a lot of things I have to say, but I have to say them anyway.    He is human and he is growing and serving me.  What are you doing?  If you are offended so easily should I be offended by you and never forgive you for what you have done to me?  What would happen to our relationship if I constantly held a grudge toward you?  Would you want me to treat you the way you treat your brother in Christ?

   Maybe another reason is "He doesn't make me feel good."  Are you here to make yourself feel good or to learn what's right and what's wrong?  These are my words he is speaking.  I sure didn't feel good when I was teaching the truth here on earth and people ridiculed me, put me down, said I was wrong, beat me, spit on me, and hung me on a cross. 

    Another excuse is "well, they don't have exciting music here."  Anything worshipping me is exciting.  It isn't about you...its about me.  I look at the beat of the heart, not the beat of the music.

The excuses go on and on of what I have heard people say and it just saddens me and makes me mourn because I love you so much and want to give you so much, but you won't let me.  You have missed out by not being here today.  You have missed that hug I was going to give you, you missed those words of encouragement I wanted to tell you so bad, you missed me sharing words of wisdom of how to change some things in your life so that you would be blessed beyond anything you could imagine.  You will never know now what you have missed out on.  I can't bless you the way I wanted because you didn't put me first in your life and take up your cross.  I love you.  I proved my love for you, now you prove your love for me.

                                                                             Love,

                                                                               Jesus

Jesus may not come in this day in age in a physical being, but He does come and He sees all the things we do and don't do.  Do you think He understands all the excuses we make for not serving and worshipping Him?  He tells us in Scripture to come together and how little of a thing to do for Him after all He has done for us.  He does give us hugs through other people here at the church.  Have you ever had a time when you were discouraged and needed a hug and someone out of the blue comes up to you and wraps their arms around you and says "I love you."  That is from God.  He put it on their heart to do that for you.  Those words of encouragement is sent to you from God by someone saying just the right thing that you needed to hear.  That didn't just happen, that was from God.  Those words of wisdom can come from three different ways.  1) The Bible.  2) The pastor  3)  fellow brothers and sisters in Christ

Don't miss out on what God has in store for you.  Don't be blinded by Satan telling you what sounds to be legitimate reasons for not serving and worshipping God.  The last thing he wants you to do is to come together at church and worshipping God.  He wants you to forget God.  He uses these reasons to pull you away from our God.  One thing to keep in mind too is that when you pull away, your brothers and sisters in Christ mourn over your absence.  This discourages them and this is opposite of what He said in the Bible of coming together to encourage and spur eachother on.  We all need eachother.  Don't let Satan get a foot hold in your life or others.  Don't miss the reunion...the best reunion you could ever have...the reunion of God's family.

Written by "Daisy"