God Is Not on A Break, You Will See Him Again!
When we go through life hurdles, we often ask why and quietly hope that one day we will have a chance to clarify our puzzles.
No other moment in life makes us feel blue than when we have to be separated from our loved ones. We feel low, miserable and depressed.
It is easy to bear when it is travelling for a while because you know you will soon be reunited but when it is death, it becomes unbearable.
The disciples came to such a moment. Jesus will be leaving very soon. He told them, "In a little while you won't see me anymore...” (John 16:16NLT)
He will soon be arrested and crucified and then He will resurrect and ascend back to heaven. The apostles were distressed wondering what was going to be their fate after His departure.
While Jesus was with them, He was everything to them. He was their Lord and Saviour. He healed them of sicknesses and diseases. He was their Defender from the Pharisees.
He taught them the Word of God. He stilled their storms. Though they left their day jobs, they lacked nothing. They were bountifully fed. They saw raw miracles, signs and wonders performed by Him. He even raised the dead.
However, He told them, "In a little while you won't see me anymore… (John 16:16NLT)” In other words, they were going to miss all of these.
Jesus had to reassure them that whereas in a little while you won't see me anymore but a little while after that, YOU WILL SEE ME AGAIN.
Does It Seems Like God Has Deserted You?
For most of us, the first part of Jesus’ statement has come to pass. There was a time in our lives when He was around.
Everything was going on well for us – finance, marriage, academics, career, and ministry, including our walk with God. There was no cause for alarm. Before we called, He answered and while we were still speaking, He heard us.
Everything we did, prospered. God was on our side. We had peace on every side.
However, for a while now, you can’t see Him. You have come to a season of your life when it seems as if God has deserted you.
The same prayer and principles you used to engage no longer work. Your business is gone. The tides have turned. Your marriage is gone. The love that you shared with your partner has left.
Your spiritual life is dry. You can no longer pray like you used to do. You longer have access to His word. You know within yourself that something is wrong. You still go to church but you know your inner man is deficient. You feel empty. You can feel His absence.
It's a while you also had a cause to celebrate or share a testimony. Instead, it's been one challenge or the other – delay, lack, denial, retrenchment, unemployment, ridicule, disappointment, failure, etc.
You've prayed and fasted about that matter but the heavens over you are as hard as iron. It seems God has turned a deaf ear and the quiet question in your heart is, “Where is God in my life? Why do I have to go through all of these?”
Friend, if this is your case; I have a message from the Lord for you. Thus says the Lord, “But a little while after now, YOU WILL SEE ME AGAIN."
God is going to show up for you again. He is going to reveal Himself. This dry season will not last. YOU WILL SEE HIM AGAIN!
Your Sorrow Will Be Turned Into Joy
The disciples didn’t understand what the Lord Jesus was saying so He explained further in John 16:20;
“Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice...”NKJV
Perhaps this further describes your condition. While you weep and lament, the world around you is rejoicing. Unbelievers and wayward individuals are celebrating while you cry. It seems your life is at a standstill.
Jesus, however, didn’t stop there. He said, “Yea… and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.”
That is the good news. The sorrow will be turned into joy because He will show up for you again.
Now Jesus explained why this season of “His absence” is sometimes inevitable. He said,
"When a woman gives birth, she has a hard time, there's no getting around it. But when the baby is born, there is joy in the birth. This new life in the world wipes out the memory of the pain…” (John 16:21-23MSG Emphasis mine).
I want you to take note of that phrase, “there’s no getting around it.” In other words, it is necessary.
These pains are birth bangs. They are indications that you are about to bring forth something great; something is about to be released to your world.
Take a cue from all the great people in the Scriptures and even in the contemporary world. They all had their seasons of sorrows and pains.
Joseph must have wondered why he had to go through all he went through. He later realized that the pit, Potiphar’s house and the prison were all necessary for him to get to the palace.
There was no getting around it. To get around it was to shortchange himself. To get around it was to truncate the plan and the purpose of God for his life.
Right now, you are like that woman in the labour room who is about to deliver her baby. Your hour has come!
This is why you need to hang on a little more because, “…as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.”
Remember Job?
There was a time he had everything going on well for him. God was with Him!
Then suddenly, the enemy struck. He lost everything – children, servants, crops, animals and properties including the trust of his wife and friends. He lost his health too.
God seems to be absent so he had sorrows. Job prayed but it seems God was nowhere to be found especially as his friends felt his predicaments were consequences of his unfaithfulness to God.
Nevertheless, despite all he went through, Job was confident that he would see God act and come through for Him again. Job held on to God tenaciously.
“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, YET IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.” (Job 19:25-27KJV Emphasis mine).
You need that same tenacity and persistence that Job had. You need the same faith and conviction. Job was not talking about seeing God in eternity but here on earth.
Job believed he would not die in the situation. Job believed his trials had an expiry date. He declared boldly, “I shall see God in my flesh and for myself. No one will take my place.”
His resolution was similar to that of the Psalmist who said, “Yet I am confident I will see the Lord's goodness while I am here in the land of the living” (Psalm 27:13NLT Emphasis mine).
Eventually, God showed up again. Job’s fortune was restored in folds. He saw Him again. Here was Job’s testimony: “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you” (Job 42:5NIV).
The apostles also saw Him again. At Pentecost in Acts 2, He fulfilled His promise by sending the Holy Spirit. And by the Spirit, they could see Him again. They could hear His voice, perform miracles and withstand all their adversaries. There was revival again. The church was born.
This is why I am convinced that you too will see Him again in that aspect of your life. I can assure you He will show up. He cannot lie. God will restore and revive you.
Finally, Jesus said, “When all this transpires, you will finally have the answers you have been seeking…” (John 16:23VOICE).
When we go through life hurdles, we often ask why and quietly hope that one day we will have a chance to clarify our puzzles.
Jesus said there will not be the need for that because "you will finally have the answers you have been seeking.” You will just realize why you had to go through all you went through.
You will realize that while you were preoccupied with your predicament, God was using it to work things out for your good.
Joseph had questions in his heart as he was being maltreated by his brothers, betrayed in Potiphar’s house and banished into the prison but when all was said and done; he finally had the answers he was seeking.
He discovered that God was in the whole process. He orchestrated the route because that was the path to the palace; that was the way to preserve the world.
However, Jesus gives you a responsibility ahead of His coming. He said, “Ask, and you will receive…” He also tells us why you need to ask, “…that your joy may be full.” (John 16:24 NKJV).
The joy is coming but you need to ask for the things that will make the joy a complete package. The apostles had to ask by waiting in prayer and fasting at the Upper Room. They prayed until He showed up again.
You need to prepare.
Preparation is the proof of expectation.
What you need to do is ask yourself, “What do I need to ask God for or do in the anticipation of my miracle so that my joy can be full?”
Do not delay your miracle by your lack of preparation. He has promised and He will not fail. He has said, “You will see me again.” Be expectant. Believe His Word because the Word works when other things fail.
Meanwhile, you cannot expect to see Him again if you have never met Him. Perhaps, what you need is a first appearance, not a second. You don’t know Him.
I would like to give you an opportunity to start a relationship with Jesus.
“…if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, ‘Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame" (Romans 10:9-11).
All you need to do now is believe in your heart that Jesus can save and confess with your heart that He is your Lord and you will be saved. Say this simple prayer:
“Lord Jesus, I acknowledge you as my Lord. I believe You came to the world to die for my sin and You rose again to give me life. I accept Your sacrifice and ask You to live in my heart by Your Holy Spirit. Thank you for forgiving my sins and for making me God’s child. I am born again.”
In case you made a commitment and said the prayer above, send a reply to this mail or send a private message to me.
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