Please - Come Back to Me!

Recently I watched a movie with my 2 year old Granddaughter Amelia - it was riveting (as you might expect) The movie...

Winnie the Pooh's Christmas! A very Merry Pooh Year

Poor old Winnie and the gang - you know Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, Eew-Aww, Kanga and Roo all gathered in Winnie's house for Christmas Eve.

All the talk was about Santa coming and giving out the presents - when suddenly they remembered that they hadn't asked for anything -so quickly they wrote down their dearest wants and sent old Winnie and Piglet to make sure it went to the 'North pole.'

On the way to the 'North Pole' the wild wind blew the dastardly letter away and the last we see of Winnie was crying piteously:-


"Come back to me" - I need to take you home."

I'm not sure what happened after that - I think I had a Poppa snooze and missed the end.

Funny little story and yet...

You know God is calling us - always to "Come back to me - I need to take you home."

Heaps of us need to turn back constantly- every day we need to renew our commitment to our Heavenly Father - He sent His son to die for us - a horrible excruciating death it was as well!

Jesus took my sins on his shoulders - burdened as he was already with the weight of the cross - He became even more burdened with the weight of the sin of the world.

Your sin and mine -  and He died there at Calvary for you and me - amazing at that sounds - He did it for love and through that love we could be reconciled to our Heavenly Father God.

Maybe you are like I was going up and down on a roller coaster - believing God and trusting Him sometimes - doubting Him sometimes - Just about ready to give up the walk of being a "Christian"

On a roller coaster experience with God?

Thinking it is all too hard - making excuses why you can't do this or that - Trying to masquerade the fact you are not as close to God as you were once.

God is not at all interested in masquerades - putting on a face doesn't win any brownie points with God either.

It says in proverbs that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" - that to me is an awesome proverb.

The fear of the Lord!! Wow - Yes God is someone to be feared as well as revered.

If we are truly aware of God's spirit in our lives - leading us through the tangled web of our day to day dealings then we have nothing to fear from our Heavenly Father BUT..

If we have turned our back on Him, excluding Him, not even being the least bit sorry for things done and said to others - not even thinking of Him or talking to Him - then we should be justly terrified to meet Him and rightly so - Our God is merciful and loving - He is also Just and Holy!

I thank the Lord for my beautiful Daughter In Law who out of love for me and concern  gave me a book - not a special book but a book by John Bevere called "Driven By Eternity" - In the book Bevere outlines the outcomes of not following our Gracious Father. Fortunately he also outlines the outcomes if we do.

It opened my eyes as to the severity of not following our Lord - the outcomes are terrible in the extreme.

On the flip side the amazing love of our Lord and His graciousness blots out all of our transgressions and He sees us as holy and unblemished through the blood and sacrifice of Jesus who took our sins and killed them on the cross.

Are you walking a long was off from the Lord you once knew and Loved like I was?

Jesus wants you to "Come back to Him" - it is never ever too late - no matter what you have done - no matter what you are feeling - no matter where you have been.

Don't leave it too late - Come back to God Now - All he wants to do is to take you home.