RCCG Open Heaven Devotion 2012 – Pastor E. A. Adeboye (ISBN: 978-36079-4-4)
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Bible in one year: 2 Chronicles 17-19

Memorise: But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. John 10:38

Read: Matthew 27:45-46

In Psalms 42:3, the psalmist said his tears had been his food both day and night. It is a very touching thing to be in tears both day and night. The truth is, there is no sorrow to be compared to two lovers that are compulsorily separated. If you are intimate with someone and something happens that pulls you apart, which neither of you could stop, it could cause a lot of sorrow. Jesus Christ experienced this on

the cross and He cried out :

Jesus felt it so deep. The agony of the cross was nothing compared to that brief moment of separation from His Father. They have been very intimate and had been together from eternity past. Even when Jesus came to earth as a human being, their relationship was intact. But when He went to pray in the Garden at Gethsemane, His worst fears and worries were not for the beatings, crucifixion and death ahead, but from the foreknowledge that He would be separated from the Father for the very first time.

If you love God and have fellowship with Him, it will show when there is a sudden break in the love flow between you and God. If for any reason you fall into sin and God is separated from you for a moment, your grief will be much. You will weep your eyes out and feel so bad to have betrayed His love. You will immediately suspend everything else and make sure your link is restored with your source and lover. But if you do not feel anything or you sweep the sin under the carpet saying: “I have some more urgent matters to attend to now, I will later ask God for forgiveness when I am chanced”, it simply shows you are not in love with Jesus Christ. If you love Him, you cannot go to bed with a grudge in your heart against anyone. You cannot stay one minute out of faith in Christ. How do you love Him? Does your attitude show that you really love Him? Ask God for grace to love Him as you never did.

Do you love Jesus to a point of grief and tears whenever you err from the path of righteousness?