Our view of love in this generation has been so distorted that we actually expect a loss of control to come over us when we are in love. In fact, love has been turned, tied and twisted around so much that we now call it "falling" in love. We actually relieve ourselves of all personal responsibility. It's looked upon as an accident that was unavoidable, and those to whom it happens are not to blame.
Many children play their parents like a fiddle. The parents become like puppets in the child's hands. Whatever the child wants to happen can be manipulated into existence simply because the mother and father are easily provoked. The downside of this is that while the child may be able to control his parents, but also has an unavoidable inner sense that parents who are provoked are parents who don't love. Children need stability in their parents. Just like the rest of us, they have truth of love written on their hearts, and that truth is that love is not easily provoked. Ironically they try and test it, but that child needs his parents to stand strong and not be controlled. The moment the parents cave in to manipulation, intimacy is off. Children will not give their hearts to mothers or fathers they can control. There is no security in that. They need something bigger than a screaming, angry daddy or a sobbing, worried mother. Children are looking for something bigger than they are. Until they find it, they will never share their true selves.
Sadly, we've been taught that being provocative is how to get answers to prayers. In fact, most Christians seem to believe that God simply will not move unless provoked. We've created a remote control God who jumps into action the moment the right buttons are pushed, and many spend their entire lives trying to figure out the right code to punch into the God keypad so they can get what they want. Make no mistake: God will never turn His face from you. To even say that God would turn from you is an anti Christ mentality. It denies the work of Christ on the cross.
Many times we confuse natural consequences with with-holding blessings. If you give nothing God will not love you any less than if you give everything. In the spiritual realm there are laws, and the laws that govern the spiritual realm are not about blessing or lack of blessing. They are governed by natural consequences, and they apply to every human being on earth.
We call a person sensitive when he gets offended easily. Another person is sensitive to the needs of others. Some of us may think that the Holy Spirit as being like the first definition. As a result we become terrified of grieving the Holy Spirit. God'a spirit is the second definition of sensitive. He is sensitive to our needs. He knows everything about us.
"extracts from Misunderstood God by Darin Hufford"
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Sorry that the extracts kinda don't flow. I simply just typed out all that spoke to me.
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