Making A U-Turn With God
Jeremiah 31:21-22 (The Message)
Set up signposts to mark your trip home. Get a good map. Study the road conditions. The road out is the road back.
We’ve never gone too far away from God to come back. The road does not disappear from behind us. It’s always there waiting for us. We can turn around and come back into the Father’s loving arms.
Who hasn’t made mistakes? Who hasn’t left the pathway of God’s perfect will and gotten off track? We all have, but the good news is—-there is a road back. God is very willing to turn us around as we yield to Him.
That’s the key….yielding to Him. At times we can be stubborn because we don’t want to admit that we made the mistake. He wants us to admit our sin of willfulness (doing it our own way), ask forgiveness for it, and then run back into His arms.
Stubborness is really pride and a lot of time pride stems from an insecurity. We feel we have to defend our mistake rather than ask forgiveness for it in order to save face. Thus we become unteachable. When that happens, God has to wait until we are ready to come running to Him, because He will not violate our free will.
GPS (God’s Directions)
Luke 15: 11-32
I John 1:9
Jeremiah 31: 28b The Message Bible
Prayer Focus:
Ask God to show you the areas of your life that are not totally submitted to Him.
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