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"Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings." - Jeremiah 3:22.

Abandon the idea that you must recover yourselves from your backslidings and then approach God. Perhaps you think that you could then approach him with some confidence. But does God forget? And will he look complacently upon your mended piety? He will look with just as much disgust upon the patched robe as upon the rent robe. But further you ought to know better than to entertain such an heretical notion as that you are able to recover yourself from your backsliding. Could you do that you would be the wonder of created beings. To recover you is in fact the work of God’s power in its highest flight. Do not suppose that your sin, the stigma of your declension from grace, must get a little old, and then you will have a face to appear before God. This delusive idea will take you every day further and further away from God, and make your case more and more hopeless.

No, with all the guilt of your backsliding full and fresh in view, hasten to God. The only place in the universe where sin can be disposed of, is the throne of God’s grace. If you throw it into any obscure pit and think you have done with it, you make a signal mistake.. A legion of armed warriors will one day come up out of that pit and fall upon you with unappeasable ire. God alone is able to heal your backslidings, and he does it by leading you to dwell upon the character and work of our sympathizing High Priest, who does not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax, nor cast away as worthless what seems to men irrevocably gone.

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