It was on a sad Tuesday
night when I decided to retire from writing for a while. It was a time when my
mind couldn't comprehend that God's ways were governing my life - yet my heart
couldn't help but give in to the grief of that moment.
It is also on a gracious
and glorious Tuesday night that I return, all because of and all for His
love :)
~o~
As a left-handed person, I
sometimes disappoint people when I get assumed as someone who is gifted in the
arts - and by arts they mean drawing, painting, sketching. The best portrait I
can sketch is either always abstract or a draft or an outline or a wireframe -
or an 'm' (which is actually a poorly drawn bird in the horizon. mehehe)
Yet, if there's one
creative thing I think I can do best, it's the art of writing. Well, I guess
more than the skill that I have for it, I have more passion for it.
Though sometimes this
passion may fluctuate (as the skill does), the hunger to consume words, pair
them up, group them, tangle them, untangle them, mask them or even twist them,
always always surfaces. The greatest obsession of a writer is not to express,
because expression is natural to human beings in every way possible, subtle or
explicit. Rather, I believe the obsession of a writer is to consume the words,
consume them to bring out the best in them; consume them so that expression through
words may thrive. Consume the words so that ‘I love you’ is not the only way to
make other feel your love. Consume words so that ‘you are adored’, ‘I knew you from the womb’, ‘I
sent my Son for your sins’ will wrap a
person with the true meaning of the love conveyed.
And as a writer consumes words, so does the Lord consume our sins. ‘For our God is a consuming fire.’
Hebrews
13:29
We have this silly yet surprisingly
popular notion of God and sin – Since you’ve
sinned, be shameful for the perfect God looks into you with eyes of
disappointment, devouring you like a fire until you burn in hell for all
eternity. This may be a little exaggerated, but for some (if not many) this
notion may prove to be believed. The plain and simple truth is that God hates the sin, but not the sinner. Hold
up! This may be as cliché and a boring as a teleserye lasting for years but
there’s more to it that we initially think there is. He hates sin because sin destroys us. Sin deteriorates our health, our mind… our soul and
sadly, with our permission! God doesn't like the thought of seeing His beloved sick or miserable - let alone not with Him in paradise for eternity!
Sometimes we feel that God hates sin because it
gives us joy that is not from Him (and others find it a power-tripping and
selfish reason), therefore lessens His godliness. But God is already perfect; we must remember that God never
really needed us in the first place… but His overflowing and abundant love breathed
life into us. We were given life from love, to experience love and to give
love.
So is this consuming fire –
his consuming fire of love! While we are human beings, continually sinning till
we reach perfection in God, He continually consumes the sin in us through His love.
The dumbfounding truth that is always not seen in the bible is that it is God’s
unfathomable love that will bring us to our knees in repentance – not any type
of fear or threat. But solely because we realize that no matter how dirty we
get, the Lord will look at us with eyes of love and as He does so, we get
stripped of our sins in wanting to repay and spread the love that only God can
give.
God’s love is so amazing,
love’s God is so amazing – truly God and love are one!
I am not one to talk about
sin, for I am as sinful as anyone in this world. But as someone who has
continually felt the overwhelming Love of a God, I owe it to you whom He also
loves to share His message for me today (and I know throughout my life.)
In the end, though a writer’s
passion may change, skills may deplete, his consumption for words may falter
many a times, it is God’s consumption of sins which will never falter, for His
love from which this is drawn from is as immense as the biggest infinity ever
imagined!
Don’t you see how
wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing
to you? Can’t you see that this kindness is intended to turn you from this sin?
Romans 2:4
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