“God doesn’t necessarily shield us from some pains. He permits, allows and enables us to go through it not so that it can break us but so that we can learn, grow and mature thereby.” Is this statement right?

I was in London with @AyowoleTinuola, and we were having a conversation.
Then she said, “Brother Gbenga, you’re really doing well. One would never guess you’ve gone through anything emotional.”

I laughed.

The day I truly learned my lesson was when my wife and I took Harmony to Eko Hospital. I spent a lot of money that day. At some point, the doctors asked for yet another test, and I said, “No more.”

My wife began to cry.
“Why are you saying no more? Do you want this girl to remain like this? We must do everything it takes to get a solution!”

So I said, “Okay,” and I continued.
By the time we were done, I had spent over 2 million naira and the entire day at the hospital.

On our way home, the Holy Spirit said to me:
“Today, you behaved like the king who trusted in physicians instead of Me. You allowed your emotions to lead you—and you forgot that I Am.”

I cried my eyes out as I drove home. That day, I lost everything—to emotion.

Despite all the samples they took at the hospital, the doctors didn’t give us a single drug—not one injection, not even basic medication. I spent the entire day there, and poured out my money. And to this day, that girl never received a single drug from anyone.

They just kept testing and testing. The baby cried non-stop as they took the samples. And I kept paying and paying—all because I let my emotions lead me.

There’s something else I’ve noticed—and to be honest, it scares me a bit…

Whenever I become too emotionally invested in something to the point where it begins to distract me from my fellowship with the Holy Spirit, that thing is just… gone.
I wake up, and it’s like it never existed. Even if it’s a human being, a pastor, a bishop—whoever it is—once it becomes a distraction, it’s removed.

I won’t go into too many examples, but I believe you understand what I’m saying. In some cases, people I deeply cared about even passed away—not because I didn’t love them, but because they had become the focus of my heart at a time when my heart belonged to God.

I recognized the pattern, and I made a decision:
I will never take my heart away from the Lord—for anyone or anything.
Not because I’m hard-hearted, but for everyone’s good. When God truly has your heart, everything else finds its rightful place.

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