God is all merciful and forgiving to those who turn to Him. The Holy Spirit will change us from the inside out. How much we give to Him is how much change will happen.
Jesus, all man and all God... fills man with His Spirit so that we can be doers of good not just hearers!
Laments often express the feeling that God has abandoned the person or community, but by continuing to appeal to God, they demonstrate a belief that God is still there and listening. Faithlife Bible
What is stated as a possibility actually emphasizes that the occurrence is completely out of the question: The Lord cannot reject His own people forever.
The one word turn can summarize God’s message to His rebellious people. In one of Jeremiah’s earlier messages, he had exhorted the people to turn to God no less than seven times. NKJ Bible.
renew (Heb. chadash) Strong’s #2318: As a verb, the term can mean “to renew” or “to repair”. As an adjective, the word identifies something new in contrast to something old (such as the “old harvest” versus the “new harvest” or something different when compared to the status quo (such as “a new spirit”). The Bible teaches that God alone is the One who makes things new, whether a new song in the heart of the faithful, a new phase in His plan of redemption, a new name, or a new heavens and earth.
Lamentations 5:20–22 (NKJV)
Why do You forget us forever,And forsake us for so long a time?Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be restored;Renew our days as of old,Unless You have utterly rejected us,And are very angry with us!
Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,Like an untrained bull;Restore me, and I will return,For You are the LORD my God.
Psalm 80:3
Restore us, O God;Cause Your face to shine,And we shall be saved!
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