You must return to your God. Maintain love and justice, and always put your hope in God. —Hosea 12:6
God’s unfathomable love for us moves Him to draw us back to Him when we’ve strayed. It was His love for Israel, in fact, that caused them to want to return to Him. It wasn’t that they suddenly felt love for Him again, nor that they somehow remembered how wonderful it was to live with an awareness of God’s love. It was that God caused them to desire that love relationship again.
He enabled His people to see not only how wrong they had been and why His discipline was necessary but also that He would welcome their return because He had never ceased loving them.
Perhaps your own heart is hungering for intimacy with God—an intimacy that you haven’t enjoyed for a long time or perhaps have never known. That very desire is God-initiated. He wants you back! Why?
Because He loves you and knows that you cannot experience all He has for you in your present condition.
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Seeking Him: Experiencing the Joy of Personal Revival ©2009 Life Action Ministries
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Write a prayer thanking God for His faithful love and for His desire to restore His people when they have wandered away from Him.