So I've been reading "Pilgrim's Progress" (man, that's a lot of reading for me recently), and it's interesting how Christian (the main character) falls off the "Narrow Way" that he is doomed to have to retrack and go back to where he got off the path. It makes me wonder if I've built my faith on something that is not the "Narrow Way". Have I built my life on vain-glory, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, or the pride of life? And if I have, am I forever doomed to be apart from the Will of my Father and unable? Oh what a wretched man I would be if that were the case, but what hath God to say regarding this? What of all my mistakes and sins that have taken me off the path of righteousness? Is there restoration for such?
Joel 2:25-26 - "Then I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you. And you shall have plenty to eat and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wonderously with you; then My people will never be put to shame."
Oh wonderful grace of God, that He has provided a covering for my faults and mistakes of years past. The years that have been taken away due to sin will be made new as I turn to Him and pray, turning from my wicked ways.
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