
27/08/2025
It’s hard to accept when God takes something away. It’s even harder when that “something” is not just a thing, but sometimes a person we loved, a dream we’ve built, a job we’ve prayed for, or even a season of comfort we thought would last forever. At first, it feels unfair. It feels like an unanswered prayer, or maybe even like God has forgotten us.
But as I walk through the quiet spaces of loss, I begin to see the deeper truth: sometimes God removes not because He delights in our pain, but because He desires our heart. He knows when we’ve given too much of ourselves to someone, something, or even to the dreams we’ve made for ourselves. He knows when our joy, identity, and security are tied too tightly to what we hold, and not to Him. And in His mercy, He gently — though painfully — takes them away, so that He can have us back.
God longs for us. He is a jealous God, not in the sense of envy, but in the purity of His love. He wants to be the center of our lives, the first love of our hearts. And so when someone, a career, a dream, or even a season of comfort stands in the way of that, even unknowingly, He may step in and remove it — not to punish, but to protect.
Maybe the greatest act of love from God is not in giving us what we ask for, but in taking away what keeps us from Him. Because in the end, no one and nothing can fill the void in our soul but Him.
So even in the ache of goodbye, even in the loss of what once felt secure, I choose to trust that His removal is also His rescue. For when God takes something away, it is only because He is preparing to give us more of Himself.
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." – Exodus 20:3 (KJV)