ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE THINE INQUITY.

 

October 5

 

Jeremiah 3:13  

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast 

transgressed against the LORD thy God, and

 hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under 

every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my

 voice, saith the LORD. 

 

Will the Lord receive us when we have backslidden from Him, and are desirous of returning to Him?
 
Oh, yes, He invites, He exhorts, He beseeched us to return.
 
Nor does He prescribe any hard conditions, but He says, “ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE THINE INIQUITY.”
 
He is so ready to forgive, so infinitely gracious in His nature, that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
 
Have we wandered?
 
Have we left our first love?
 
Let us go and return to our first husband, for then it is better with us than now.
 
His bowels yearn over us.
 
His arms are open to receive us and He waits to fall upon our neck and kiss us.
 
Let us go to His throne, and there confess our sins, crave His pardon, sigh for the enjoyment of His love, and He will restore unto us the joy of His salvation, and establish us with His free Spirit.
 
Let us daily confess our iniquities unto the Lord, and He will pardon our numerous sins.
 
In His favour is life.
 
In His frown is distress and woe.
 
He delighted in mercy.
 
He will receive us, pardon us, and bless us like a God, for His mercy endureth forever.
 

This glorious news dispels my fear,

Makes glad my heart, wipes off my tears,

Displays the riches of His grace,

Inflames my love, and claims my praise;

A pardon’d sinner lives to prove

The height and depth of Jesus’s love.

 
James Smith