Such strong words. Faithless Israel is more righteous then unfaithful Judah. To me this is a great example of today. We have the new look which is the crosses on shirts and crosses in jewelry, Christian symbols are in a lot of today's trends but the people who wear it are unfaithful. They know who God is they wear the stuff that make people think they might be a christian or they wear it because it is the fad, but they are vacant of God in their heart. He even states that the people will say "As surely as the Lord lives..." but it is lip service not from the heart just as we say GOd bless, or I'll pray for you and then tuen away 5 minutes later.

In this part of today's reading Israel is begged to come back to God. The faithless are asked to see Him again and repent and believe again. That is all God wants. Just to have us love Him. It would be like our own child deciding never to call us again. How sad and heartbreaking it would be. It clearly states how sad God is and how much agony He is in seeing His children acting the way they are and walking away from Him as they have. The thing is they are letting all the sin they have done deprive them from being with God.

It is like a spiral. They sin and don;t ask for forgiveness and then sin again and don' t ask etc, etc. Then one day they are so deep in sin they feel there is no God for surely He would help. But the thing that is forgotten is the fact that all they need to do is ask for forgiveness. Do let all that shame and sin get between you and God. Ask for forgiveness TODAY!