"Therefore they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served wooden images and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their trespass."
It is sad when professing believers leave Christ, His church, His gospel, His word, His Sabbath, and His means of grace--to go worship rocks, sticks, and dirt. But such is the tendency of the fallen human heart. Was there any hope for these (mentioned above), who had so devalued their souls?
There *was* hope: but it called for faith and repentance. May we who are the beneficiaries of so much grace, not show ingratitude by leaving God, but gratefulness by more closely clinging to Him.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Christ makes us wise to ponder and weigh things, and to rank and order them accordingly . . . " --Richard Sibbes, in "The Bruised Reed"]
