True Repentance Brings Healing

There is only one solution for sin in the life of a nation or a person. It is true repentance. If we will repent, God will heal what He has torn and bind up what He has strickened. (Hosea 6:1) That is God's promise, and we need to take Him up on it for ourselves and for American.

When we repent, we realize we are sinning and that our sins are separating us from God. We know that continuing to practice that sin will not bring health and satisfaction, but ruin and death. Therefore, we change our actions from the sinful actions to what God says we should do in His Word. We go the other way from the way we had been going. Sinning is going away from God, so when we repent we go toward the Lord, and we do it in faith. We do it because we believe in Him, and we admit He was right all along. We trust Him and His way, instead of our own way. We do all of this recognizing He is Lord, so whatever He says is right, and we must follow His way. When you put all of that together, it is true repentance.

Once we repent, God heals. He saves the Unbelievers when they trust Jesus, and He binds up the wounds of sin. He delivers believers from bondage to sin, and He heals their hurts. However, repentance is vital. Without the change in direction and heart that comes with repentance, we continue down the road to death and/or misery caused by sin.

Tomorrow, I intend to read Hosea 7-10.

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