2 Chronicles 30:9 KJV
For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
These words are a part of a letter King Hezekiah had posted, not only in Judah, where he was the king, but throughout the northern tribes of Israel, who had been under another king for generations. That, to me lends even more weight to the message that "...God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away His face from you, if ye return unto him."
Even Israel, who had for so long followed wicked kings and worshiped false gods, were encouraged that if they would just return to the Lord, He would not turn away from them. God is so loving, so kind so gracious and so merciful there is none outside of His love and none He would not receive if they would come to Him. There are those who will not come to Him, to be sure. But any who will return to Him, He will in no wise cast out.
We who are Christians should see ourselves as these "posts" who passed from city to city telling people what the king had said. Ours is to take what we hear in the house of God from the man of God and go out through the cities and through the countryside telling people what we heard. God will not turn away from anyone who will return to Him.
For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
These words are a part of a letter King Hezekiah had posted, not only in Judah, where he was the king, but throughout the northern tribes of Israel, who had been under another king for generations. That, to me lends even more weight to the message that "...God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away His face from you, if ye return unto him."
Even Israel, who had for so long followed wicked kings and worshiped false gods, were encouraged that if they would just return to the Lord, He would not turn away from them. God is so loving, so kind so gracious and so merciful there is none outside of His love and none He would not receive if they would come to Him. There are those who will not come to Him, to be sure. But any who will return to Him, He will in no wise cast out.
We who are Christians should see ourselves as these "posts" who passed from city to city telling people what the king had said. Ours is to take what we hear in the house of God from the man of God and go out through the cities and through the countryside telling people what we heard. God will not turn away from anyone who will return to Him.
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