God's Love

In reading Jeremiah the second chapter, I see where Israel strayed from following God, but God's love was still there for them. Many of the troubles they faced were of their own doing. Because they walked away from following God. They created their own gods that could do nothing for them.
And I brought you into a plentiful land
to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, you defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.
The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
Those who handle the law did not know me;
the shepherds transgressed against me;
the prophets prophesied by Baal 
and went after things that do not profit. Jeremiah 2:7-8.
It is so sad. After God brought them through the wilderness into a land flowing with goodness, they forgot him. As I thought about what I was reading, it reminds me of our country. We have been blessed above any other country in time as we know it from history. No country as fared as well as ours. But we too have not learned from history and turned away from God. We have a chance now with our current President. I truly believe God gave us Trump to restore our land. What do we see but people fighting him on every hand. We bring the troubles on our own head when we walk away from God. God is still there, wants to hear our prayers, wants to help us.  When many prayed in this last election, God answered. Trump never, we heard over and over again. God is sovereign, he can work his will and his way in our lives and our hearts if we let him. I think in my own life, which I know better than anyone. I was brought up in church, yet I let prosperity turn me away from God in my youth. I allowed the culture around me influence me and I lived like those around me. I suffered the consequences of my sins in many ways. But God still loved me and brought me through many dark days. I was raised in Church, and knew better, but still allowed sin, stuff that I knew to be wrong enter my life. I often think how much trouble I could have avoided if I had remained true to God. There is hope for us as there was for me. As I saw things in my life, I repented and turned from my sin. Yes it was a struggle. Sin does not go willingly. When Satan gets a foot hold in our lives, he wants to stay. I think of the drug addicts, and how hard it is to get free. Sin looks and feels good and many times it is as hard as it is for a drug addict to get free from drugs. But God loves us and works in our hearts to bring us back into relationship with him. He sent Jeremiah to the house of Israel to bring them back into fellowship with him. If he knocks on your hearts door, he is trying to bring us back into relationship with him. God sent Jesus to die for our sins. I am thankful for God's love. I am thankful for his transforming power. We see his power displayed in our land today. Thank God for his love for his people. Though a mother may forget her child, God will not forget his children.
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. Jeremiah 49:15-16.  God loves me and works to correct me. No trial is wasted as God works in our hearts and lives. God sees me as I am and still loves me.  God bless. LVZ.