Jer:8:8-12.
What do you have to offer Oh! Bard. A message of comfort? That everything will be alright?
That God is going to bless?
That an everforgiving God is going to keep aside all your wrongdoings. Forgetting all your sins just with the snap of a finger and now on you will be blessed with riches and joy and enjoyments and anything you name under the sun will be granted to you?
Yes in a way it is true. He will do it. For His word says that He is a God of blessing. It is His character to bless. His attribute to forgive.
But do you have an iota of idea that you are someone who gives superficial treatment for mortal wounds? Are you Oh! Bard assuring peace when there is no peace? To a sinful and wretched generation who do not know even how to blush?
From the least to the greatest in this generation, their lives are filled with greed. I want more.
They are filled with pride. I am important
I deserve much more. Why should I?
They are filled with lust. Looking for ways to commit adultery. Eyes always searching.
The mind is the most wicked of all. The mind is wretched and pathetic.
How oh! Bard can you say that the Lord will bless, if they commit adultery with the idols on their hearts. They so love sin, that they are searching for ways to sin secretly. To elope with sin if time allows. If situations are cordial, they would find ways to grieve God. Open your phone, flooded with material to make you sin. The mind desires for it too. Look at the hoardings, it allures and the mind desires. Look at the daily newspaper, it allures and they fall for it. The greed and the pride and the lust. All the mind wants to be satisfied, the world gives it. The mind desires for it more and more. The mind keeps giving excuses to appease the secret lover and grieve the true lover.
Oh! Bard. Are you immune? Don't act too smart. Don't be a fraud. Will you allow anyone to peak into your own heart? Which will display your wretchedness?
Yes. God is a God of forgiveness. Yet the act is complete. Sin has been taken care of on the cross.
Where oh! Bard is your cross? Where is your beating the body? You live in luxury. Where is your denying your own self. Your are still in your couch. Unless you realize the amount of grief you are causing your lover, how will you return to Him?
To realize, because of your fallen nature, the only thing you can do is to grieve Him. That's the only thing that you are actually good at.
Then only you can run to Him, wailing. Help me Oh! Abba.
Unless there is repentance, there is no reinstation. Yet forgiveness has already been given. Full credit. That is the beauty of this God. To the most undeserving Bard, He has already given in full measure.
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