Repentant Heart

Bring your confessions, and return to the Lord. Say to him, “Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer our praises”…The Lord says, “Then I will heal you of your faithlessness; my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever.” – Hosea 14:2, 4

Much of the book of Hosea is God telling Israel how upset he is with them. After all he has done for them – bringing them out of Egypt, feeding them in the wilderness, giving them a new land to live in – they still ignore his commands and turn to worshipping idols instead. After giving them blessing after blessing and being ignored in return, God is a little angry. All he wants is for his children to love and listen to him, and they act as if he didn’t exist. He threatens terrible things against them, and uses Hosea and Gomer to show them how loving he will be to them, but they refuse to comply. In the last chapter of the book, God once again explains how to repair the relationship between him and his people.

He asks them to come and confess, asking for forgiveness, willing to praise. And once they humble themselves and put their own desires aside, God will heal them and flood them with a boundless love.

It seems like an easy choice – of course they want God’s healing and love, so following his orders should be a no-brainer. But as we each know all to well, it is much easier to ask God for blessings than forgiveness. The thing is, God wants to bless us – but even more than that, he wants us to love him. And loving him has to come before the blessings.

God longs for us to come to him with a repentant heart, so he may heal us and shower us with boundless love.

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