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When the prodigal son had a change of heart – his father wept for joy.
Charles Spurgeon tells how our heavenly father responds when his sons and daughters change their hearts. Tissues and tears on today’s edition of Faith’s Checkbook
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Faith’s Checkbook
Daily Devotional Reading by Charles Spurgeon
For January 27
Precious Repentance
And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed
Ezekiel 20:43 ESV
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” [Exodus 16:31 ] 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; yes, we shall loathe ourselves for sinning against such infinite love.
Let us come to God with this promise of repentance 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, strike the rock, or speak to the rock, and cause the waters to flow! †
For January 27th, Faith’s Check Book Daily Devotional Reading by Charles Spurgeon.
I’m Rick Tarrant. Hear more at Words of Encouragement dot net
