Turn From Sin and Seek the Lord

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

-II Chronicles 7:14

The Bible says that if the people have sinned, then they come back to God in repentance and with sincere hearts, that God will forgive them. The passage of time will not diminish the concern and compassion God holds for His people. Here is the reminder that no matter how far from God people stray, they can still come back. This is extremely important for us to understand. I have spoken to many people over the years who mistakenly believed that they were beyond hope. They had strayed too far and been too bad. They had ceased to believe that God could ever forgive them. That is a lie straight from the devil. God can and will forgive the sinner who calls out to Him in faith. God loves us, and if God did not love us He would not be so willing to forgive us. The Lord is concerned for us out of His abiding love for us. He will offer forgiveness and new life if we will come to Him in repentance and humility.

Don’t ever make the mistake of believing that we can make it through life completely on our own strength. We cannot. Regardless of how well things are going now or how well things have gone in the past there will come a time when we will need to call upon the Lord and seek His help.

Trying to navigate our way through life on our own and on our own strength makes no sense, but to call out to the Lord and seek Him makes perfect sense. God has provided a way for us to be delivered from the mess we sometimes make of our lives. God in His love and mercy will forgive and pardon. That, my friends, is a love which defies human reason and human understanding. That is the kind of love which brought the Lord Jesus to the cross of Calvary. This is the kind of love in which we have done nothing to earn or deserve it, but God loves us anyway. In fact, what we deserved was God’s wrath, but God’s grace was given instead. We can thank God for His grace and mercy which is freely given to all who seek Him.