Isaiah 1:4-6 -- On Healing and Change

"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment."
Isaiah 1:4-6


This is an interesting analogy, comparing our sins to physical illness.  It's a good illustration of how serious it is when we sin, and how it eats at us, rotting us away spiritually unless we take the time to repent, change, and heal.

Today, let's stop revolting against God, and work on recovering from our illness, not just lying there stricken and unwilling to accept the Lord's healing when it is offered.  Let's be willing to change and allow God to heal our hearts and our minds.  Yes, we'll be different people, but that's okay... more than okay, I mean... it's the entire point of the whole thing.  To change into someone better, to be new creatures in Christ.  If we ask, he can help us change into our best possible selves.  It will take time and patience, but if that is what we want and work for, God will make it happen.