Yet Return To God

Jeremiah 3:1

NKJV

“They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him and becomes another man’s, may he return to her again?’ Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.

...Yet return to Me. This has to be one of the most incredible things God has ever spoken. From a human standpoint it is pure ludicrousy. What man is there who has such mercy on a lover who has played the harlot? Who asks her to return to him even after all the evil she's walked in? This mercy and forgiveness is foreign to the world. Even to Christians it can be foreign! Our flesh simply wants to take revenge, to block out, to ignore, to hate those who have walked away from us and against us. We are not apt to forgive, and there is nothung natural about forgiveness and mercy. They are strictly divine, for they flow from the One whom they originate in. Our nature is not God’s nature though, and such a relief that is. He is not swayed by our behaviours, our hearts, our sin. Instead, we are an opportunity for God to reveal His mercy and grace, if we allow Him. God’s Word says that Jesus was slain before the foundations of the world. God already had a Saviour in place before man sinned! Had man not sinned, God would have had no need to send a Saviour, His Son, and we would never understand or experience Gods mercy and grace.

God also shows us how powerful the cleansing of Christ's Blood is when He speaks about the great pollution of the land. That land in the case of the shedding of Christ's Blood is applied to our hearts. Our wicked and deceitful hearts have greatly polluted us before God. We are not clean apart from Christ. But God, who has such great mercy on us because He loves us, asks us to return to Him. Let us return to Him constantly, since we so easily get entangled in sin. We need to be washed constantly from where we have walked. We can come boldly to God's throne to receive the cleansing, to receive the mercy and grace our hearts so desperately need. We can have the tendency to think our sin not so great as it truly is. Limiting ourselves to our human understanding is certainly to lead to the misconception of the depth of our sin. Proverbs 3:5 says to “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding.” Why else would God asks this of us if it were not true that our understanding is not complete? Even when we think we know it all, there's always more. It is plain ignorance to say we know or understand it all with our sins. Should God even reveal to us the full understanding, we would be unable to bear it and would die! Jesus sweat drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane as He took upon Himself the weight of our sin. As the wrath of God for all mankind's sin was poured upon Him, instead of us.

God wants us to return to Him. God wants us to be in His family. God loves us more than we will ever understand. We are His beloved children, and the thoughts He has for us are nothing but peace. He has purposes and plans for us. Return to Him from our harlotry, our wayward lifestyles, our evil habits, or wrong thinking, and confess these things before Him. There is so much more God has for us, yet we limit ourselves because we give room for our evil and wicked hearts to fulfill its desires. Return to your Father, He will not turn you away.