1 "Come, let us return to the Lord;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;
his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth.”
I'm so grateful to the Lord that when He breaks me and brings me to the place of repentance Ha also restores me. I was dead in my transgressions; my idol worship left me utterly empty. Yet God met with me face to face last night, and today He spoke to me through His word, breathing life back into me.
I love the lines from verse 1:
Come, let us return to the Lord;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
That is just so beautiful; I ran from God into my sin, and He tore me apart in order to tear me away; He struck me down so I couldn't stand on the shifting sand of idol worship. Now, He is being faithful to heal me and to bandage my wounds. He gets all of the glory and I get to know Him more; I am in awe of His goodness.
My prayer is that I will adhere to the heed in verse three, that I will "press on to know the Lord".
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