The Blessing of Returning to God
Written by JesusIsKing4Ever
Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 06:38 AM.
(Deuteronomy 30)
"When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. You will again obey the Lord and follow all His commands I am giving you today. Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as He delighted in your fathers, if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul."
God loves us, and He only wants what is best for us. As humans with a sinful nature, we make mistakes. But notice in the early verses of Deuteronomy 30 that the Lord says He will bring you back from WHEREVER YOU ARE: "Even if you have been banished to the most distant lands under the heavens...". No matter what you have done, how far away from the Lord you have gotten, He will gather back into His safe and loving arms if you turn yourself to Him. He will never reject you, or turn away from you. He loves you more than any human being on this earth could ever love you. So turn to Him, and feel the blessing and prosperity that comes from returning to your Father.
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Now working this verse sequentially backwards would be to say; ...to avoid a physical judgement upon the people of the whole earth for a season of indignation, a group of individuals must physically hide themselves by shutting a physical door to a physical chamber of some sort. This group of individuals according to this verse, are collectively referred to as MY PEOPLE.<br />
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My question is that if a physical judgment is brought upon physical people, then how can returning to God merely be spiritual? And if a physical people is to go physically somewhere, who are they and where will they be going? Since Isaiah 26v20 has yet to occur and therefore is a prophesy which will come to pass eventually, is it possible that it could apply to this very generation?