Tag: repentance
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Taking Responsibility
Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.Lamentations 5:21 This scripture represents a heart that is ready to change its ways. When you look through this chapter, you see a documentation of the terrible things the Jews had gone through recorded here. They were really…
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Before It Is Too Late
The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against His commandment; hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.Lamentations 1:18 Today, we move to the book of Lamentations, which follows the book of Jeremiah. Note that it was also written by Jeremiah. It…
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The People or the Building?
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.Jeremiah 52:17 When a Yoruba proverb says that the child you didn’t train will sell the…
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His Compassion is a Shield
In those days and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserved.Jeremiah 50:20 This is a blissful future that God has promised Israel after they…
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His Compassion Fails Not
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the Lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.Jeremiah 48:47 We read of the judgement of Israel; till they were brought to ruins due to their stubbornness and refusal to repent despite many warnings from God’s prophets. Here, it is the…
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Stubbornly Unrepentant
They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.Jeremiah 44:10 The stubbornness of these people is legendary. Even when confronted with God’s judgement, they remained stubborn and unrepentant. They were even attributing their suffering…
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Divine Restoration
For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave their fathers, and they shall possess it.Jeremiah 30:3 This is a message of God’s restoration. It gives hope…
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He Wants Us to Repent
And if so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.Jeremiah 26:3 When God is the one giving us the leeway, one wonders if people will be smart enough…
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Truly Repentant
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.Jeremiah 14:20 True repentance starts with acknowledging our sins. If we brush over our wickedness and pretend we are good when we are not, how do we expect God’s forgiveness? A proverb says that you won’t be long…
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Just One Person
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth, and I will pardon it.Jeremiah 5:1 Many times we think of God as that big headmaster just…
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