I Will Heal Your Backsliding

MAY  4

I will heal your backsliding

Jeremiah 3:22   Return, ye backsliding children, and

I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto

thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

Sin brings sickness.

The believer can only be healthful as he walks with God, lies above the world, and looks for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

At the feet of Jesus we are safe, and shall be healthy; but if we wander from Him, spiritual diseases will seize upon us. The backslider feels too weak to run in the way of God’s commands; to confused, to read His interested in God’s promise; too guilty to call God Father; too wretched to rejoice in hope.

He has no liberty in prayer; no enjoyment of his Bible; no peace in his conscience; no delight in God’s way.

But the Lord says, “Return, ye backsliding children; I will heal your backsliding.”

This is a message from the Great Physician, an invitation from our Father’s throne, a promise of our Saviour’s love.

Oh, let us return unto Him with weeping and supplication, adopting David‘s Prayer as our own, “Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.“

Let us take up the determination of the church, “Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God.“

He will receive us graciously, and love us freely.

Give me Thy pardoning love to feel

And freely my backsliding heal,

Repair my faith’s decay;

Restore the sweetness of thy grace

Reveal the glories of thy face,

And take my sins away.

James Smith