From Ezekiel 36
29b And I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
As I grow in the Christian life, LORD, Your promise to me is that You will bring forth the fruits of the Spirit in my life. More and more I will INCREASE in love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Thank-You, LORD, for this promise!
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Also...I will not have "famine"...You will feed me with Your spiritual food! Your WORD is my FEAST. Amen!
31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
Daily I confess my sins, and if I've really "blown it" in front of my husband and children with lack of submission or impatience or fear or with other wrong attitudes, tears come to my eyes.
"For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin." (Ps. 38:18)
I am so thankful that You are a forgiving God.
"Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up." (Hos. 6:1)
I AM a very wicked person, and those who know me best see my blackness many times. The heart attitudes are not always right, and although I know that You are making me more and more holy, those who know me best don't remember how bad I use to be. Yes, I REMEMBER!
What a froward little thing I use to be - not easily controlled, willful, contrary, selfish, wanting my own way! This verse says when I REMEMBER, I shall lothe myself in my own sight, and that I do.
Ps. 78:40-41 says that "oft I have provoked You in the wilderness, and grieved You in the desert! Yea, I have…LIMITED the Holy One of Israel."
Yes, I have grieved You with my lack of faith many times.
"But You, being full of compassion, forgave my iniquity, and destroyed me not: yea, many a time You turned Your anger away, and did not stir up all Your wrath. For You remembered that I was but flesh; a wind that passeth away.. (Is. 78:38-39a)
Thank-You, LORD, for Your great forgiveness and for Your mighty love and for the promise here in the verses previous that You WILL make me HOLY! Amen!
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