I have swept away your sins like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free. Isaiah 44:22 NLT
Have you ever tried to drive on a really foggy day, when you can’t see more than ten feet in front of you? It’s nearly impossible and very dangerous! Your instincts tell you to pull over and wait for the fog to lift, but you fear an unsuspecting driver behind you might come along and rear end you. There’s no safe way to navigate through it. As you cautiously inch along, you wish you’d never left in the first place. That’s the way it is with sin. It clouds your vision and traps you in a dangerous situation. It appears innocent enough in the beginning, but when you get into the thick of it, you can’t see your way out. Your thoughts go something like this, “How did I ever get myself into this mess?” “I wish I had never started down this road!”
If you find yourself on that road today, and you can’t see your way out, be encouraged by the words of Isaiah. God can lift the fog! And the good news is, no matter how far you’ve wandered away from Him, and His plan for your life, He will welcome you back! He says, “Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.” It’s not His desire to condemn you, but to save you out of the mess you’ve gotten yourself into. Don’t let Satan convince you it’s too late, you’ve gone too far. Jesus paid a very high price to set you free! When He took your sins upon Himself on the cross, he purchased the right to sweep your sins away like a cloud. So will you let Him set you free today? Will you humble yourself, admit your sin to God and ask for His forgiveness?
There is a way out. You have a choice. He will set you free.
This is great advice! Goes along with something I heard once… God is like a GPS for your car. It tells you to go 10 blocks and turn right, you go 10 blocks and turn left. It doesn’t abandon what your supposed to be doing, it tells you where to go based upon where you are, to get to where you are supposed to be. God does keep reaching for us to get us to come back to him, and satan keeps trying to make us feel lost in the fog, like God doesn’t want us.
As a Christian, it’s hard for me sometimes to leave the fog bc I feel like I should know better than be there in the 1st place. I need to remember that’s just satan trying to keep me down. Thanks for this great reminder!