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Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
The Stepping Stone
"Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to him: 'forgive
all our sins '' " (v.2)
-- For reading & meditation: Hosea 14:1-9
Nothing is more abhorrent to God than to see within His people the
desire for self-control and self-dependence. This is not because of
any egotism in the Almighty that requires Him to be the boss, but
because He knows that when we try to run our lives on our own terms
we demean ourselves and fall short of His plans and purposes for us.
We must face the fact that we are helplessly dependent and that God
and God alone is independent. He can exist without us but we cannot
exist without Him. The periods of revival in the Old Testament came
at the high peaks of corporate worship in the life of Israel, when
the people acknowledged the fact that they could not successfully run
their lives on their own terms but were happy and effective only to
the degree that they were dependent upon God. In the chapter before
us today we see how God called His people back to dependence upon Him
by encouraging them to repent: "Take words with you, and return to
the Lord." This means (so I believe): "Have a clear idea of what you
are repenting of." The stepping stone from independence to dependence
is always repentance. There is simply no other way that it can be
done. That is why in all revivals the issue of repentance becomes
paramount. In revival God underlines in a dramatic way the truth that
the path to a continuous relationship with Him is through repentance.
Never forget this. The key to all change is in a returning to God,
for every effort to change must invoke at its core a shift in
direction - away from dependence on one's own resources to dependence
on the living God.
PRAYER:
Father, I see that if I stumble here, over this matter of dependence
and independence, I stumble all down the line. Help me not to deny
this issue but to face it and repent of it. I do so now in Jesus'
Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
2 Chron. 7:1-14; Joel 2:12; Isa. 55:7
1. When will God heal the land?
2. What is God's promise?
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