"You have played the whore with many lovers; and you want to return to me?" Jeremiah 3:1.
Who's talking here? God. The weeping God. Who's he talking to? His wife. To his divorced wife who loves her adulteries. That is, to his people, Israel. The law pronounces it obscenity in the face of Jehovah God for a husband to take back his former wife after they divorced and she married somebody else. And, now, God's divorced, treacherous wife wants reconciliation. Through his tears God says, You cannot be serious; it's an abomination; everybody knows that. And then God says, Sure, I'll take you back; just stop your adulteries; come back to me, truly, and we'll reign together. What?! What kind of God is this?!
We repent. We put away shameful adulteries. With a brother or sister today we remember our God's mercy. We remember his Christ's redeeming price paid, Forgive them. And, humbly, we give thanks for his grace. Sky kingdom.
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