GOD’S WORD FOR  MARCH 27

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is  Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

ROTTEN TO THE CORE

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you,

And your backslidings will rebuke you.

Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing

That you have forsaken the Lord your God,

And the fear of Me is not in you,”

Says the Lord God of hosts.

D.L. MOODY

I do not exaggerate when I say that I have seen hundreds of backsliders come back, and I have asked them if they had not found it an evil and a  bitter thing to leave the Lord.  You cannot find a real backslider who has known the Lord, but will admit that it is an evil and a bitter thing to turn away from Him;  and I do not know of any one verse more used to bring back wanderers than this very one in Jeremiah.

Look at Lot.  Didn’t he find it an evil and a bitter thing?  He was twenty years in Sodom and never made a convert.  Men would have told you that he was one of the most influential and worthy men in all of Sodom.  But alas!   Alas!  He ruined his family, and it is a pitiful sight to see that old backslider going through the streets of Sodom at midnight, after he has warned his children, and they have turned a deaf ear to him.

ERWIN LUTZER

Our propensity to turn from the Lord reveals the human heart for what it is.  We deny our sin, and when we are found out, we minimize it.  Left to ourselves,  without the intervention of God’s grace, without the intrusion of His light, we are lovers of darkness.  The reason we love the darkness is that the darkness is more consistent with our desires.  We do what we want to do, and darkness enables us to do that.  How much will it cost you to come to the light and repent?

PRAYER

Father, please help me to walk in Your Word and not forsake You.

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Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.

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Jeremiah 3:22

Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings.” “Indeed we do come to You, For You are the Lord our God.

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Matthew 3:2

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!

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Acts 17:30

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.

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Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.

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Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that He should lie,

Nor a son of man, that He should repent.

Has He said, and will He not do?

Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

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And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

John 16:8

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So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

Hebrews 9:28

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