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Ärende: Return from Backsliding
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

Return from Backsliding
Faith's Checkbook

February 7 Return from Backsliding"If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt
be built up" (Job 22:23). Eliphaz, in this utterance, spoke a great truth,
which is the summary of many an inspired Scripture. Reader, has sin pulled you
down? Have you become like a ruin? Has the hand of the LORD gone out against
you so that in estate you are impoverished and in spirit you are broken down?
Was it your own folly which brought upon you all this dilapidation? Then the
first thing to be done is to return to the LORD. With deep repentance and
sincere faith find your way back from your backsliding. It is you" duty, for
you have turned away from Him whom you professed to serve. It is your wisdom,
for you cannot strive against Him and prosper. It is your immediate necessity,
for what He has done is nothing compared to what He may do in the way of
chastisement, since He is Almighty to punish. See what a promise invites you!
You shall be "built up." None but the Almighty can set up the fallen pillars
and restore the tottering walls of your condition; but He can and He will do it
if you return to Him. Do not delay. Your crushed mind may quite fail you if you
go on to rebel; but hearty confession will ease you, and humble faith will
console you. Do this, and all will be well.
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==761 L.M. I. WATTSPleading for Pardon. Ps. 51. 1-91 Show pity,
Lord; O Lord, forgive;Let a repenting rebel live;Are not thy mercies large and
free?May not a sinner trust in thee?2 My crimes are great, but don't surpassThe
power and glory of thy grace;Great God! thy nature has no bound,So let thy
pardoning love be found.3 O wash my soul from every sin,And make my guilty
conscience clean;Here on my heart the burden lies,And past offences pain my
eyes.4 My lips with shame my sins confess,Against thy law, against thy
grace;Lord, should thy judgments grow severe,I am condemned, but thou art
clear.5 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath,I must pronounce thee just in
death;And if my soul were sent to hell,Thy righteous law approves it well.6 Yet
save a trembling sinner, Lord,Whose hope, still hovering round thy word,Would
light on some sweet promise there,Some sure support against
despair.==============================================================
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