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Devotional - 27th Jan 2021

 'And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God' (Jeremiah 30:22).

Israel had backslided and followed after other gods throughout the history of their nation, but God has never given up on them. When they disobeyed and rejected Him, he chastened and punished them and allow them so many times to be captives of the heathen nations around. But our God is a loving, merciful, and longsuffering God; and when His people cried out to him, he heard and responded to their cries - their fears and tremblings. When they feared and worshipped God and returned to him, he restored and bring healing to them and grant them peace. As spiritual Israel we tend to fall in the footsteps of Israel in many ways. We turn our backs on God; disobey his commands and commit idolatry. When we do these things that displeases God, he will allow afflictions, pain, sufferings, tribulations and distress to come upon us. However, as He did to Israel of old, he will  do for us when we turn from worshipping idols; worldly pleasures and evil surmising and turn to him and obey and do his will. He will restore us to Himself and heal us through His Son, Jesus Christ. He will manifest his love to us, grant us his favour and take us under his care and protection. Our gracious God, wants to dwell in us, those who bear his name and to give us that peace we so need. We see how loyal and protective God is over his children. Whenever Israel sinned against God, he sometimes used other nations as a rod to chasten them, but will not allow these nations to crush them, and will avenge all wrongs that they have suffered by the hands of these nations. Such wonderful love! He would use these nations as his tool to get the work done, but then He would break these nations and sometimes destroy them, because of the way they treated Israel. God will correct us when we deserve to be chastened and punish us when we disobey him. It will be in measure because His aim is to save us and not for us to perish. We ought to thank God and be grateful, that even amidst our sinfulness and waywardness, he is still merciful. We have One who has the authority to approach the throne of God on our behalf, and his name is Jesus Christ.  He is one of us, through his humanity and is worthy to appear before the Father on our behalf, as our Judge and High Priest, and who pleads his blood shed for us on the Cross. We can rejoice because our King and High Priest has brought us back into a close and  deep relationship with God and we shall be his people and he will be our God.

Have a wonderful day 🌹🌹

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