The Lord taught His people many times by severe punishment whenever they
turned away from the law of God and became a degraded life. Actually, this is
God’s love for His people in order to realize what they have to do as people
of God. Once they fell into sin severely, the Lord had sent them far away
among nations and scattered them among the countries. However, God never
forsakes His people after they confess that they have fallen, and repent them,
the Lord always secures them from such suffering. Here in the bible the book
of Ezekiel 11:19-20: ‘Then I will give them one heart (undivided heart), and I
will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their
flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and
keep My judgment and do them: and they shall be My people, and I will be their
God.’
The Lord proclaimed to Israel those who were captive of Babylon to recover. He
said that I will make you a new one. And although your heart was stony, I will
make it soft.” This is the very abundant grace of God. Even though we were
sinners, the Lord gives a chance to return to Him through Jesus Christ. This is
based on God’s covenant for His people, which never forsake His people and
does not want to lose the relationship. We should be in the right relationship
with God. The Bible says that because Israel has broken the relationship of
God, they were captive to Babylon and their country was destroyed by fire.
Their family was killed.
Even though we were sinners, the Lord gives a chance to return to Him through Jesus Christ.
If your spirit is not bound strongly in the relationship with God, you may
lose the power of life as a Child of God. So, if we are unclean before God, we
immediately confess our sins. If we do not confess our iniquities, this is
against God, so you may lose the fellowship with God. And the Lord does not
want His people to fall in distress for a long time, but he wants to restore
the relationship rightly soon. But, one thing that we should know is that we
must be clean before God. Before the Lord declared this recovery of Israel, He
had ordered them to bring out all of the detestable things in their life. This
is a precondition to coming back to God to us, to restore the broken
relationship. Brothers and sisters of seafarers let us purify our life
wherever we stay. This is God’s wants for us. Bon voyage!
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