Tuesday, January 26, 2010

No; For I Have Loved Strangers

Jeremiah 2:25 KJV
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
The bondage of sin is incredible. Here is God offering the best for His creation. Here is God reminding them of that time when they were young and kind, when they were in love and when they followed after God through the wilderness.

And yet over time these people had turned from the Lord. False gods and people of strange lands had turned their hearts from following the Lord to other and varied sins.

And now, though God was still calling them to come unto Him, their own testimony was "There is no hope"

They felt that way not because God had abandoned them
They felt that way not because God was unable to forgive them
They felt that way not because false god were more powerful than is the true and living God

They felt that way because they loved their sin and refused to turn away from it.

Though the sin offered them no hope
Though the sin was destroying them and they knew it

Still, they refused to turn from it.

Lord, open our eyes! Help us to see the bondage of sin and cause us to break free and turn to You alone. In You there is always hope!

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