God has no Grandchildren
Hellos Ignytians!hahaha incase you think I changed your names...
Ask those you attended life conference why it ain't Ignyters...
Anyway, It's been too quiet here for the past week... so...
I'm back to make some noise!!!
See the title?
God has no grandchildren!!!
Whao! You know what?
That line just wacked me like a ton of bricks when I was doing my TAWG a few days back...
Geee... God has no grandchildren....
The line stood out. It made it's dent on my brain, but i didn't understand it in my heart... so like the bible tells us... I 'meditated on it day and night'. 24hrs!
Then it dawned on me! It simply meant what it meant!
God has no grandchildren! Only children!
Sounds stupid right? but hey... it sure did shock me out of bed ok!
See... I remember when I was in Sec 1, my mum told me:
'Michelle, now that you're growing up, you need to start knowing God for yourself. Since you were born into the church, you have been riding on mummy and daddy's faith. Now you can't just believe in God because mummy and daddy does. Get to know him!' (...Boy that brings back memories...)
Anyway, yup! Be the child of God!
Allow Him to be your Father.
That means:
1) You have direct access to God. You don't have to wait for your parents or your leaders to pray for you. Go pray to God! He hears you all the time.
2) You have his direct spiritual genes! Made in his image! Not to be diluted through 3rd generations. We should therefore act and carry ourselves the way Jesus would!
3) "Spare the rod and spoil the child" - Well, we've all heard that before. But this is the point that jolted me out of bed. It's the stark difference between being a child and a grandchild. As a grandchild, your grandparents would gladly spoil you silly. (At least this happens MOST of the time). However, when you're the child, your parents won't just buy you all the presents in the world. They show their love through discipline too.
Hence that meant, as a child of God, surely God will bless me, but that also means he will discipline me in order to make me the person He wants me to be. It's not easy to discipline a child. Being a second mummy to some of my little cousins, whenever I discipline them, it ain't easy. It makes me feel bad when they start crying, but I know I have to do it cause I want to see them mature. I'm sure it's the same for God and even worse! God loves you more that you love yourself. Surely he feels more pain when he disciplines you... but he still goes ahead because he LOVES you.
You are his CHILD, not grandchild!
So remember!
Whats the tag line again???
GOD HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN!
AMEN??? AMEN
Love, Michelle
posted by IGNYTE, Trinity@PL @ 9:46 PM
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