'"Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings." Jeremiah 3:22
This was a call from the heart of God the Father to His children, Israel. He saw their tears of regret and heard their lament. He wanted them close, but they had wandered and lost contact. As they wandered, they slipped, lost ground and backslid.
To backslide is not a single act, it is a process. The absence of God in our thoughts, our plans, our lives, causes a vertigo of the soul. We become disoriented, lose our sense of direction and go the wrong way. We backslide and we are heart sick.
Listen: There is God's love call. "Come back, I can heal you."
PRAY: Father God, indeed I come back to you. Fill my mind with thoughts of You and keep me close to You. The power of your love when you shed your blood on the cross heals my memories and my backslidings. Keep me on track. In Jesus' name, Amen.