“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Return to Him against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel, for though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.” Our God is an awesome God!

Jeremiah 29:13 says, “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.” My brothers and sisters in Christ, are you ready to find God? He knows where we are at all times, but he wants you and I to seek him out, he wants us to diligently search for him. How prepared are you? For when we seek God, sometimes he allows us to travel winding roads and steep inclines, but we must stay the course, we must never give up for when we find God, we find peace, joy and love.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, God has been wonderfully kind and tolerant with us not to mention patient, yet we take it all for granted, we refuse to turn from our evil ways, “But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.”

God can create in you a clean heart and renew a right spirit within you, he did it for me. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Leave your simple ways behind, and begin to live; learn to use good judgment, for we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”

I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh; so that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Ezekiel 11:19-20

My brothers and sisters in Christ, when we are changed by God, it is easy for us to recognize those who are still living like the Gentiles, they have no sense of shame, they live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity, with a craving for more; but this is not the way you and I who have been changed have come to know Christ; we certainly heard about him, and as his followers, we were taught the truth that is in Jesus. We were taught, with regard to our former way of life, to put off our old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires and to be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Praise the Lord!

We were by nature children of wrath, we used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, we lived among them obeying the devil, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging in its desires, being tricked by the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God. But you and I were washed, we were sanctified, we were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. We have been changed! Praise the Lord!

“Therefore, do not be partakers with them, for you were once darkness but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth, and finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret; but all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.”

“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it. He was in the world and the world came into being, yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own and his own people did not accept him. But to all who receive him, who believe in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.” My brothers and sisters in Christ, if we believe in his name and receive him as Lord and Master of our lives we are born again; and from that moment, old things are passed away and we could walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. 

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness, on them light has shined. You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy, they  rejoice before you as with the joy at the harvest, as people who exult when dividing plunder. For the yoke of their burden, and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian. For child has been born for us, a son given to us, authority rests on his shoulders, and he is named Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,Prince of Peace. His authority shall grow continually, and there shall be endless peace for the throne of David and his kingdom.” Thank you, Lord!