The Backslider’s Return « Sola Dei Gloria

The Backslider’s Return « Sola Dei Gloria:

"“Yet return again to Me, says the Lord.”–Jer. 3:1
Could there be a more touching “Thus says the Lord” than this? The voice of Jesus, as it echoed over the mountains and along the valleys of our unregenerate distance from God, seeking and finding and bringing us home, was inexpressibly sweet and irresistibly gracious. But, to hear that same voice, after our many wanderings, our repeated relapses, our sad backslidings, still seeking, still inviting, still imploring us to return, though we had “played the harlot with many lovers,” oh, there is music in that voice such as the heavenly minstrelsy must bend their ear to catch."

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http://pjmiller.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/the-backsliders-return/