the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Our Daily Homily - Volume 3
Jeremiah 15:19—If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before Me. (R.V.)
What a promise for backsliders is this! Here is a soul that had gone away from God’s presence, and had ceased to be as his mouth. How long it had been in this castaway condition we need not inquire. It is enough to know that it had dipped beneath the horizon, and been permitted to know the bitter anguish of seeing others do its chosen work. Have you known this? Then these words were written for you; eat them, and let them be unto you the joy and rejoicing of your heart.
Will you return to God? Do you want it to be as in the old time? Tell Him so, and He will bring you again. It will not take Him a second’s space to restore you to where you were wont to stand. Dare to believe that you are there again, forgiven, cleansed, sanctified. Live there. Go no more out for ever.
Will you leave what is vile, unworthy, and unholy, casting it away as so much dross, and take forth only the gold, silver, and precious stones, of a holy character? then God will make you his mouth, through which He will speak to saint and sinner. Is not this worth whatever it may cost you? Remember how Peter sinned; but within fifty days he was speaking as the mouth of the Holy Ghost to thousands.
It was thus, also, that Mark was brought again, who forsook the apostle, in his first missionary journey; but he was honored, as the mouth of the Holy Spirit, to write the Gospel that bears his name.
"I know not what I am, but only know
I have had glimpses tongue may never speak:
No more I balance human joy or woe,
But think of my transgressions, and am meek.
Savior! forgive the child who sinned so—
His proud heart yields—the tears are on his cheek."
