Bringing Them Back To Love

You have wearied the LORD with your words;
​​Yet you say,
​​“In what way have we wearied Him?”
​​In that you say,
​​“Everyone who does evil
​​Is good in the sight of the LORD,
​​And He delights in them,”
​​Or, “Where is the God of justice?”  Malachi 2:17

The final book in the Old Testament gives Israel a call to return to God before the drought of the word came upon them. And a nation far gone in so many ways from the Lord gets the word of repentance right in the heart. The outward ways of offering, weeping over the altar, atonement sacrifices, and others, are all negated by hardened hearts and proud spirits. Good thing that age has passed, eh?

It would be easy in this age to learn that the sacrifice of Jesus satisfied the demands of God's justice, fulfilled the law, set the sinners free, and then fall to the temptation of lust, or greed, or hatred, or any other thing the flesh of the once-born desires seeing that it now has some sort of pass to commit iniquity. Down with the devious and deceptive heart of the old sinner! Up with the love our Lord gave to us by way of those two commandments that He said were the law and the prophets. We are free in Christ to obey Him out of love. The redemption of the cross frees us to love Him and one another.

Have a loving day in Christ!

Bucky