FAITH || BE MY COMFORTER, BUT NOT MY LOVER.

Hello Royalty.

How are you this new week? I really do hope that you are starting off smiling and full of hope! If you are not, then you should. Remember the last time you were sad and worked up? Did you smile eventually? Yes? Yes. So remember also that this too shall pass.

Today’s post is inspired by the following poem, as written by Tolu Akinyemi. I picked up his poetry collection (a gift from a good friend), Funny Men Cannot Be Trusted last week and the following poem is just one of the many beautiful poems I found in the book.

Comforter

I did not hear from you

in four months. I knew you

had found someone to love.

My phone rang last night

it was you, wanting to know

if I had a good day

like you asked yesterday?

last week? or last month?

I knew it. He too had crushed

your heart, like a kid’s delights

in crushing eggs.

When they take you

to the moon, you don’t

remember me

when they drop you

from that height

and you break

into 53,105 parts

I become useful again.

I am the comforter

worthy of your trust

but unworthy of your love.

***

Today’s Post

As I read this poem, I knew this blog post was going to come out of it. I began to think of it in the light of our relationship with God as Christians. But first, have you ever been in love? And had the same love reciprocated? Or have you ever seen people in love? It kind of tickles lol. Now have you also been a shoulder to cry on, but not really a friend? In cases of mentoring, being a motivator, therapist or what not, this can be accepted because it’s a “job” – people come to cry out to you and you help them get on their feet, without really being best friends with them. However, there’s a different kind where you really, really care about someone but they only remember you in times of trouble, or when their “other” friends let them down.

Life can get that way sometimes. But let’s take it from the human context and bring it to your relationship with your Father. We serve a God who is a “sworn” comforter. What I mean is Jesus had promised you and I that he would send the Holy Spirit to us as a comforter, among many other functions. And so we have it. We have the Holy Spirit right with us as a Comforter – to counsel us, to help us in distress and in times of need, to intercede for us, to strengthen us and to be a Standby at all times, as long as we let him (see John 14:26). Isn’t that amazing?! To have someone to run to at every point and to be certain beforehand of his open arms. Absolutely amazing!

However, sometimes we are like the persona in the poem above. We allow the cares of the world, and sometimes “good things” like work, purpose etc. to take us to the moon and to different planets altogether, and we forget all about God. Again, we spread our wings and fly and then when we are in trouble, we remember the Comforter. We pick up the phone and we say, “Hey God, I just want to know how you’re doing.” Amusing. Like the poet persona, the Comforter becomes a shoulder to cry on and is suddenly worthy of our trust, but not worthy of our love.

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Today’s post is intentional in reminding you and I that God wants our love as much as he wants our trust. He does not just want you to cast all cares upon him (yes, he will always be there for you!); he also wants you to love him as a father and friend, the Bishop and Shepherd of your soul. Yes, He wants you and I to build fellowship with Him – to pay attention to His Word, to love His house, to run through a troop for His kingdom and to be an extension of His loveliness. He doesn’t just want to carry our burdens; he wants to see our hearts of love.

Would you make a conscious change to make your Ever-Abiding Comforter your lover also?

NB: Today is Day 4 of a 5-day challenge currently going on. It’s inspired by Deep Roots Devotional and you catch up with all that it involves on my Instagram (@alexandrazion) or on my Facebook page: Alexandra Zion.

Have a most blissful week!

Goodbye Royalty.

With Overflowing Love,

Alexandra Zion.

About the author
Christocentric. Academic. Writer. Poet

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