"For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him."
2 Chronicles 30:9
I love the idea of God not turning his face away if we return to him. Regular people do that sometimes, perhaps because love and trust are well and truly lost, and sometimes because we are just scared of the whole thing melting down over again. It's amazingly difficult to re-build bridges once we've burned them all down. But God is loving and merciful, and we know that if we repent and change, he will accept us, and won't even recall our sins to throw them in our faces again... he'll let them go, and take us back.
This of course isn't a reason to go wandering in the first place. Repentance doesn't become impossible when we planned it from the beginning, but it does become ultra hard, because we don't just have to change a behavior. We have to become people who *wouldn't* have planned it from the beginning.
Today, let's return to God in whatever ways we have strayed from him, and be thankful and diligent in changing to become the sort of people who would never leave him in the first place.
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