Ezekiel 20:43
There you will remember your conduct
and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe
yourselves for all the evil you have done.
When we
are accepted of the Lord, and are standing in the place of favor, and peace, and
safety, then we are led to repent of all our failures and miscarriages toward
our gracious God. So precious is repentance, that we may call it a diamond of
the first water, and this is sweetly promised to the people of God as one most
sanctifying result of salvation. He who accepts repentance, also gives
repentance; and He gives it not out of "the bitter box," but from
among those "wafers made with honey" on which He feeds His people. A
sense of blood-bought pardon and of undeserved mercy, is the best means of
dissolving a heart of stone. Are we feeling hard? Let us think of covenant
love, and then we shall leave sin, lament sin, and loathe sin; yea, we shall
loathe ourselves for sinning against such infinite love. Let us come to God
with this promise of penitence, and ask Him to help us to remember, and repent,
and regret, and return. Oh, that we could enjoy the meltings of holy sorrow!
What a relief would a flood of tears be! Lord, smite the rock, or speak to the
rock, and cause the waters to flow!
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