Defiling God

Last week, I do not even remember where I was, I over heard just a part of a conversation.  It seems someone had a daughter, not unlike my oldest, whom had to be invited to leave the family as she had chosen a lifestyle not reflective of ANY of my nor this family's values.  It literally broke my heart.

This young girl, whomever she was, had made the same choices and kept her child.  However, unlike me, her father never attempted to restore the damaged relationship.  And now due to some incident, she was dead.

Now this man, was being addressed by what I took be a lifelong friend.  No one would have taken this conversion from anyone less!  Yes, very hostile!  And I am not going to go into it because it was the end of the conversation that struck me.

The father, in discussing his unknown grandchild, said, "So, what am I supposed to do?"

The friend said, "You have already defiled God in your relationship with your daughter, now He has given you a chance to not defile Him again."

I do not think I had ever heard this term before ... defiling God.  Is that even possible for man to do?  We are not talking about defiling the Temple of God, nor your body aka Temple.  But, God himself ...

Of course, you will not find anywhere in the Bible a reference to this.  So, what was this just hack religion the guy was spewing?  I had to think on this, in my drug numbed post surgery brain ...

What is the opposite of defile?  If my computer were working, well it would have been handy but it crashed last week and I spent all of Sunday night trying to restore just a basic and CLEAN machine.  But, Kris is using his brain, such as it was.

My conclusion is that the opposite of defile is to honor, and there are many, many, many verse about honoring God!

Did it honor God for me to have driven my oldest daughter from the home?  No, I did it in hopes of salvaging my other three kids.  Did not work, seems the rot had already gotten to them as well :(

In alike manner, if my actions did not honor God, then there was certainly no honor in the situation this other father found himself in.

But, as this friend had observed: God was defiled by this man in how he treated his daughter.  And for me, I think I avoided that through my reader at the time, Kelly.  Her sage advise helped to rebuild our damaged relationship ... every girl really does need a father.

Will this man step forward into this responsibility?  I certainly hope so.  I know that my oldest daughter is the closest to my heart and her children are my sunshine .....