Calls For Repentance
Come Back to the Lord Written By: Bekah Rooker
Hosea 14:1-2 (NCV) Israel, return to the Lord your God, because your sins have made you fall. Come back to the Lord and say these words to him: “Take away all our sin and kindly receive us, and we will keep the promises we made to you.”
How many times have we said or at least heard it said, “LORD, if you will just get me out of this mess I will NEVER do it again”? And then how many times did you or the person who said that end up doing that very thing after God was good to get them out? I would dare say hundreds of times in my life.
There literally can be no change until we truly repent. This is not the “Oh, I’m sorry and want out of this mess ‘feeling’ but the aching, heart wrenching, snot running down the face, blubbering mess from realizing that we sinned. That that sin has separated us from God. That without God we are unable to keep ourselves from sin.
It can not be done with will power. It can only be done by the power of the Holy Spirit. We have to turn our hearts from our evil ways and return back to the Lord.
