Song:

Lord You are
More precious than silver
Lord You are
More costly than gold
Lord You are
More beautiful than diamonds
And nothing I desire
Compares with You

Yes you’re free but you’ll ultimately be responsible for your freedom. It is therefore vitally important that you make the right choices in life.

Deuteronomy chapter 28 

This chapter is a very large exposition of two words, the blessing and the curse. They are real things and have real effects. The blessings are here put before the curses. God is slow to anger, but swift to show mercy. It is his delight to bless. It is better that we should be drawn to what is good by a child-like hope of God's favour, than that we be frightened to it by a slavish fear of his wrath. The blessing is promised, upon condition that they diligently hearken to the voice of God. Let us keep up our Christian faith: the form and power of it, in our families and nations, then the providence of God would prosper all our outward concerns.

As always, God is ever willing and ready to restore you! What then are you waiting for?

15 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
   declare a holy fast,
   call a sacred assembly.
16 Gather the people,
   consecrate the assembly;
bring together the elders,
   gather the children,
   those nursing at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room
   and the bride her chamber.
17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD,
   weep between the portico and the altar.
Let them say, “Spare your people, LORD.
   Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,
   a byword among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
   ‘Where is their God?’” (Joel 2:15-17).

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
  3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
   for his name’s sake. ( Psalm 23:2-3 ).

“Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” ( Psalm 51:12 ).

3 And now the LORD has brought it about; he has done just as he said he would. All this happened because you people sinned against the LORD and did not obey him. (Jeremiah 40:3).

14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14).

“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm— my great army that I sent among you.” (Joel 2:25).

Shalom!

In His Vineyard

Oseh JB