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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