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Return to Him

Updated: Jun 11

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Hi friend,


I hope you're doing well. I was thinking of using a sunset photo for this blog post but muffins felt right!


People have a lot of reasons for walking away from God. Trauma, tragedy, sadnesss, feeling let-down, seeing too much hypocrisy, the list is long.


I spent a few of my childhood years living on a Baptist theological seminary campus and saw a lot. I know the reason some of my childhood friends from that time ran from the faith (as I did) was because there was little to no appeal to stay in it.


We didn't see miracles, we saw poverty all around. Everyone was poor and struggling. We didn't see healings, we saw wounds inflicted by people with Bible verses in their mouths and songs on their lips. We felt the striving of our parents trying to "make it" and wished they weren't so stressed. It felt like a very weird version of American Idol with the adults we loved auditioning for the spotlight and most of us wanted no part of that.


We saw the toll. We saw the disappointment.


We didn't see a family in Yeshua, we saw adults competing, playing favorites, we saw gossip, cliques, and backstabbing. But in public, everyone was all smiles and small talk.


We didn't see the love of God, we saw adults having a very hard time chasing what they referred to as "God's call."We experienced all of the trappings of religion and a behind the scenes look at the difficulties of religous life before we'd really tasted the simple goodness of Jesus.


Now as an adult who has seem healings, miracles, and know what it's like being in a n environment led by the Holy Spirit, I know we knew too much of religion and too little of the living God's love and power.


When those teen years hit, a lot of us baptist ministry kids already had one foot out the door even though on the outside, we looked fine. Then during college, when our faith was tested as young adults, it was like watching dominoes fall because faith isn't something you can pass on genetically. We knew the songs, verses, and lingo, but there was a group of us who didn't have our own relationship with the living God.


I see my old friends now on Facebook: the ones who walked away. I read their posts and blogs. I think about them a lot and understand where they're coming from because I was there too, once. I would be in the same place if Jesus hadn't shown me who He was.


I know the line of thinking: "If this is what God is about, I want no part of it."


To my friends and anyone who is in this place:


I don't know what you've been through and experienced. I don't know what you've seen. I'm not one of those people who say, "If people cause you to walk away from God, it means you were worshipping man," because I get how devastatingly disappointing human beings can be and how religion on its own isn't enough.


But Someone is calling you right now and I know you can feel it.


In this episode I share what Jesus wants most from people who have walked away.


He sees what you’ve been through, He knows what that person did, but He wants you back. He’s knocking. Don't worry about other people. Don't worry about politics, denominations, any of that.


You're not stepping back into that past. He has something new for you.


He wants you. Surely you remember the God of your youth. Because He remembers and misses you. You can start something new with Him. He'll help you.


I have a message, one of love and longing, from the God you used to love.


ree


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