What these verses say
to me is that the Lord never gives up on us.
As long as we have breath, we have hope.
The Lord loves us and will always do what He can do to bring us back to
Him when we wander away. The Lord does
not like it when people leave Him. He
doesn’t like it when people live in misery because of their sin. The Lord wants only what is best for us, a
relationship with Him through Christ.
Now, I do believe
that we are able to abandon the Lord. We
do have the freedom to live in sin if we want to. The Lord will not stop us from
self-destruction. He does honor the
stubbornness of the heart bent on rejecting Him. He will do whatever He can to draw us back to
Him, but He never holds us captive against our wills.
Grief is a good thing
for the soul out of fellowship with God.
It helps the soul to know that things are not as they should be with
God. It draws the soul out of self and
sin to the Lord. It reminds us that God
loves us and desires a relationship with us.
The Lord does not want to cause us sorrow, but does not hesitate to use
it in order to draw us to Him.
If we truly love the
Lord we will have no desire to leave Him.
If we are keeping our souls fed with the Word and stay in touch with the
Lord through our prayers, we will not wander away. It is only as we totally neglect our souls
that we wander away from Him. You cannot
expect to keep in touch with God if you ignore Him.
It is not for me to
determine whether or not a child of God can keep on wandering away from God to
the point where He will not return. I
will let that up to the Holy Spirit to determine that for the soul. All I can attest to is God’s love for the
soul and His faithful and determined pursuit of the soul. He will pursue a wandering soul as long as
there is breath in the soul. He has no
desire that anyone would perish. He
longs for everyone to spend eternity with Him, even though He knows most
won’t. Hell exists for those who abandon
the Lord.
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