The Lord's Faithless Bride

"Again the word of the Lord came to me: "Son of man, make know to Jerusalem her abominations, and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.  And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.  No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.  

And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'  I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'  I made you flourish like a plant of the field.  And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment.....I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became MINE.  Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and annointed you with oil.....You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.  And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.  

But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby....How lovesick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things...

For thus says the Lord God; I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.  Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I will give them to you as daughters...I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord, that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you all that you have done, declares the Lord God."

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God is FAITHFUL when we are FAITHLESS!!!  We all need Him to be faithful to us when we turn to evil in our lives.  Not one can be faithful like He is.  Praise God!  I am so thankful for the many blessings He has showered upon me especially in my faithless times....:)  Sisters, parents, brothers, showing me truth from His Word, reminders of His STEADFASTNESS.  The pastor of TBC shared this on Sunday morning and it was description of me.  How many times have I given myself to things that are not honoring to God.  God is so great in His mercy to us.  He really is.  We choose these things over Him over and over again...all the while, He is a FATHER, pursuing us and waiting with open arms to renew a covenant of LOVE with us!!  Praise God!! Praise God!!