"your own wickedness will correct you"

""Your own wickedness will correct you, and your apostasies will reprove you; know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God, and the dread of me is not in you," declares the Lord God of hosts."  ~  Jeremiah 2:19 (NASB)

God points to all of us who have stepped away from His will, engaged in the pursuit of our own means and sought after self rather than seeking his will for us.

In seeking after the lusts of the flesh I have become fat and distracted.  In following pride and arrogance, I have become lonely and bitter.  In pursuing the means of the world, I have become purposeless and unfulfilled.

Lost ground can not be regained, but new ground may be limitlessly plowed.

I praise God for awakening in me a new heart, and a renewed purpose.

Triablogue: "Do Christians still receive spiritual gifts?"

Triablogue: "Do Christians still receive spiritual gifts?": By Dominic Bnonn Tennant:

"Made, Marred and Made Again"

"And, notice, God did not make man haphazardly, but with an infinite plan and purpose. He made him in His own image and likeness: a creature with which He could commune and fellowship. You were made for God’s fellowship, and to fulfill any other purpose is to fail to fulfill your destiny. 

That heart of yours, which, despite its evil and waywardness, in its serious moments cries out for fellowship with the infinite God. That mind of yours, so fraught with evil imaginations, sensual images and earthly aspirations, longs for communion with the divine Potter."

Made, Marred and Made Again

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1 Corinthians 15:34a

[HCSB] Become right-minded and stop sinning
[ASV] Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not
[CEV] Be sensible and stop sinning
[DRB] Awake, ye just, and sin not
[ESV] Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning
[GNB] Come back to your right senses and stop your sinful ways
[GW] Come back to the right point of view, and stop sinning
[ISV] Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning
[KJV] Awake to righteousness, and sin not
[YLT] awake up, as is right, and sin not
[MKJV] Be righteously awake, and sin not

"For I know the plans I have for you"--this is the LORD's declaration-- plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." ~  Jeremiah 29:11 (HCSB)