The Father's Heart

Recently someone whom I care a lot about told me they were no longer a Christian, because, I quote, ‘Christianity sucks’. As someone who is passionate about God, clearly this was sad news for me but I knew that people have to make their own choices. A few days later I was still feeling quite upset about this and decided to talk to God about it. This “talk” sort of turned into more of a rant about how unfair it is that I’m hurting about this and "anyway why are Christians throwing away their faith? What is wrong with them, how can they get bored with faith? And why don’t people understand the difference between religion and God? Why has my friend chosen to give up on God when I’ve never felt more passionate about Him? And why did God bother telling me? What can I do?" I felt no less frustrated or any closer to any answers and definitely no nearer to saving my friend and I found myself just saying “why?” God’s answer? “I thought you wanted to know my heart?” Suddenly it dawned on me, I’ve asked God to show me this person through His eyes countless times and now I knew a fraction of what God was feeling. Before this person told me this news, God already told me, (I’d been asking God what He wanted to say to me that day) and so I told my friend that God had told me they had chosen to no longer be a Christian before they did but other than that I had nothing to say, except that I agreed that religion sucked and that’s why I chose to follow God. There is nothing else I can do now but pray and continue to love this person…that was God’s reply when I asked what I could do.