“’Yet even now’ declares the LORD, ‘Return to Me with all your heart and with fasting, weeping, and mourning, and rend your heart and not your garments.’
“Now return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness, and relenting of evil. Who knows whether He will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, even a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?...
“’Then I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust’” (Joel 2:12-14, 25).
Surely we see how prodigal are our hearts (prone to wander, Lord, I feel it; prone to leave the God I love). Consider how powerful in mercy the Lord is—He not only receives back the repentant, but He is able to restore the loss we’ve suffered as a result of years of rebellion, sin, and discipline.
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