It is another sunday morning and rebecca is. dressed for the sunday service again,All completely groomed in the choir outfit,even though she wish she was putting on the party outfit for tonight bash eve, but unfortunately she has to be in church, she got to the church and joined her co-choirs to listen to the sunday school teaching the topic was"A relationship with God" as the pastor begin to discuss,she took the time to have a flash back of the relationship she and her family had with God,she remembered it wasn't cordial her father would ask them to fast whenever he had a contract awaiting approval but the lent fasting was not mandatory, he did that out of the believe that the sacrifice for that project was fasting and lent is a matter of choice,she remembered how her mother didn't stop to clean and sweep the house of God after her shop was robbed with the hope that the robbers will be cut if she did something for God and after getting a new shop she got to busy to attend the weekdays service and how she herself have agreed to attend the church after hearing so much about hell fire and how she has wished there was no hell fire and punishment,she could join the girls in the hostel to attend the night clubs,how she have chosen to abstinence because she want to get the blessing of waiting after marriage not because she want to obey christ or because she love him but because of the woes that is upon Adultery,how she has always wish serving God without not attending church would be cool and not falling out of fashion in the mist of her friends and she wish God will grant her request at the same time,but she felt something in her telling her how selfish she was and that she has barter the love of christ for worldly things she hope to achieve by serving him,she said to her self "I don't love God enough am in lust with him I am only loyal because I feel I can gain a lot by worshipping him".
The voice of the pastor brought her back to consciousness and his words rang in her ears: So brethren,when we love God, we do what the bible say not because we expect him to bless us,but because we feel we are blessed even by loving him,then we don't come to church so we can be called children of God,but because we are children of God we take coming to church as an habit,then we love God,we obey him,we adore him and all other things we come naturally because we have a personal relationship with him,and we believe he is our Lord and creator and with joy and fulfillment we do all that we do as christains with a personal relationship with God".
Then and there she realized she has been doing the right things for the wrong purpose and she believed she was lusting in her relationship with God. That we are humans and are not made to see our creator eye to eye doesn't mean we shouldn't Love him if we believe in his existence we should believe he owns our heart.
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