Deceitful Paradise 😵✨

                           (Image from Colourbox)

DECEITFUL PARADISE.

Like a mad woman, she was running around trying to grapple with life and catch up on a lot of things.
Life was happening to her in every aspect and she tried to keep up, but like a tortoise trudging in mud, she always never caught up.
Missing had

become normal for her so she settled for whatever she could handle.
Whenever she felt herself nearing breaking point and she could hear herself stretching till she could handle it no more, she stopped.
"I can't kill myself." She said, trying to convince herself that everything would be fine even though deep down she knew she was drawing farther and farther away from God-given destiny.

Here's where the problem was , dear Jewel.
Like Simba in the Lion King and like the Prodigal son in the Bible, she left what mattered the most to pursue nonentities.
The things she was grappling with, she could never get hold of them because she had not gotten hold of the Source.
The frustration that threatened to tear her apart everyday came from her core. It had been disconnected from the Source.
She wondered far, far away from purpose, life and peace...
Little wonder she had a vacuum inside her.
She had been deceived.

She lived in deceitful paradise where the hunger she felt in her core was temporarily satisfied with the things she could see and touch.
She dwelt in deceitful paradise where a counterfeit peace, joy and happiness came to stay in the day but vanished in the night.
She had been deceived.

Gladly, there was a place of reconnection.
See, she came to understand that true happiness and peace came from the One who made her.
He has all her keys, knows all her buttons and was aware of how to fix her.
So like the prodigal son, she came back.
She understood that no matter how far she had wandered, she could still come back. Come back to her Source. There was plenty of love and there was plenty of grace and there was plenty of mercy for her.
She understood that the only time she could catch up with life and begin to fulfill destiny was in that place of reconnection with her heavenly Father.
Where her tired body collapses in the loving embrace of God.
Where she meets salvation full and free.
Where the heaviness in her chest gave way for the peace she had so longed for.
Then like the children of Israel leaving Babylon, this freed and redeemed woman left Deceitful Paradise.
You can be her.
The story I just told can belong to you at the end of today if you would like this woman, recognize that the things you are chasing cannot bring true happiness.
That true happiness and your very purpose of living can only be found in One.
The Prince of Peace, the heavenly Father, Jesus Christ.
Thank you.