If you went to a board school, this term would need no explanation because you would at least know one person with this character (if not you were the class FFF). For the rest who are not familiar with this term, this is a person who is only your friend for the good times, when you have money to spend, the minute the money(or food) is finished they disappear like mist, faster than you can say Ngozi! Are you getting the picture now,am sure a name has popped into your head.
We all know how it feels to be used by someone, it is not a good feeling, but have we ever considered how God feels when we are F.F.F with God? For many of us, blessing is the basis of our relationship with God. When things are going well we are super active in church, in fact we will be in church before the pastor on Sunday. But the minute any trial or hardship comes, we start loosing interest in anything that has to do with God, we start running from one place to the order for deliverance as if God has suddenly fallen asleep and let the devil destroy you and it is your job to wake him up. Some people even contemplate suicide or run to the nearest witch doctor for a quick fix. Let me borrow the words of the faithful man Job " shall we receive good from the lord and not evil?"
I believe the main problem stems from how most Christians have been trained, they believe that God is there just to grant all their fleshly desires, meanwhile God wants to mature us even through hardships and trials because it is only then that we can learn how to trust him as our deliver, only then can we know if we are truly his possession if our faith does not fail. The only way to purify gold is to put it through intense heat and when it comes out it is more beautiful and pure than before.
So let us not be afraid of being tested because it shows that God is still interested in you and wants to draw you closer to him, and show you many more things about himself.
God bless and happy new year
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