“And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.” Luke 15:13 KJV

Children of God are constantly subject to God’s preservation as God generally has to protect them from a range of people including their enemies and their friends. But more often, God also has to preserve his children from themselves. Sometimes, our potential to self-destroy ourselves with the very talents or gifts we have received from God is just startling! The prodigal son’s parable clearly shows that the very portion of goods he collected from his father and which anyone else could have used as a starting point to an improved life, is what he had used to destroy himself by living an unruly life.

Sometimes, we press so much God in prayer and fasting that he hears our prayer and grants us what we have been yearning for. Ultimately that which we receive from God and which should be a more reason for us to solely depend on him and praise him becomes so much our focus that we go astray, backslide and regrettably sometime use to slow down or fight his vision and work.

The child God has given some people, the good job he has allowed them to secure, the beautiful house his blessing made it possible for them to build, the nice and expensive car procured with the miracle money that originated from him, the beautiful man or woman his loving kindness made them to marry, have all become as many excuses for them to stop some of the activities they once were doing for Him. Are you sure that you are not using the God-given eloquence to sabotage God’s work or turning your beauty as a satanic bait to draw God’s servants far from their ministry? What about your teaching ability? Are you sure it is being used first to teach yourself and then serving the kingdom purpose? Now that God has settled you and helped you open that shop, are you not overlooking attending Sunday services under the pretext that Sunday customers are richer and your benefit bigger?

Shall we examine ourselves thoroughly for anything that is unnoticedly destroying and/or severing us from Him. This year, please let’s resolve that no God’s gift/talent in our life will divert our focus from him because anything that attacks or affects our focus on God attacks and truncates our destiny. Cry out to the merciful God for forgiveness. Remain blessed.