Romans 8:37 -39 …37 But in all these things we
overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced
that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any
other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 10: 27 - 29 …27
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and
I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch
them out of My hand. 29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is
greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.…
Yes, God promises to love us in spite of all our faults... No,
we cannot taken out of his hand but we CAN operate in self-will and decide to
leave? No we don't have to worry that we can't make it...our only requirements
for heavenly promise are to love and obey God; He knows we are imperfect and
He knows ..that all fall short. But what
God won't do is drag us to heaven against our will...
The book of Hosea describes the undying love of God toward a
people whose hearts have wandered far from His ways. The book
expresses a deep, inner longing and desire to woo them and win them back by His
love. "I will heal their waywardness," He promises; "I will love
them freely..." (Hos 14:4)
The word "backslide" literally means "turn back" or "turn away" (from God, 1 Ki 11:9; from our first love, Rev 2:4; or from the gospel, Gal 1:6, 7; 3:1-5; to Satan, 1 Tim 5:15; to evil, Psa 125:5; or to the world, 2 Tim 4:10). The Bible describes the backslidden state as: serving two masters, forsaking the Lord, going our own way, leaving our first love, forgetting God, falling away, turning aside ("like a deceitful bow," Jer 14:7), growing cold, departing from the faith, putting a hand to the plow and looking back (Lk 9:62), "salt that has lost its savour" (Mat 5:13), "a dog returning to his vomit" (Prov 26:11), a dead branch (Jn 15:6; Heb 6:8).
Keep in mind that this is not an overnight phenomenon; it's
a gradual process; a cancer that slowly metastasizes. It usually starts with a
subtle "spiritual indifference" meaning you start justifying and
rationalizing to make God's word fit your situation; failing to focus on
spiritual things. We let our prayer lives erode. We stop seeking counsel or we
go to people that we know will agree with our wrong position.
Some of us get so far away from God that we get discouraged
and tend to think that we cannot come back ....
The repair is simple - the only thing that God requires of
us is that we confess and repent. Are you ready to separate yourself from the
things that prevent you from seeing God in His fullness?
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