“Repent Of Your Sins; Cheer Up, Your Redeemer Lives!”

“Repent Of Your Sins; Cheer Up, Your Redeemer Lives!”
“God where are you?” is the cry on many lips during crises of sorts. It carries a sense of frustration and desperation, a condition of hopelessness and a feeling of abandonment by God.
The problem is not with the Lord whose arm is neither too short to save nor his ear too dull to hear. The problem is our individual and collective sins as a nation. Sin is the underlying crisis that has given birth to the moral, political, social and economic crises that has bedevilled us.
Our iniquities have seperated us from our God, such that he has hidden his face from us.
From the telltales all around us it is true of us that: “Your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt.” Lies are spoken and taken for truth. “No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case with integrity…” but rely on empty arguments, conceive trouble and give birth to lies. Then we sit back, pop champagne and jubilate for distorting justice through lies!
“Justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness…” We grope about like blindmen and stumble in daylight as if it was night.
Sin that has overwhelmed us, but the compassionate God has not abandoned us! God’s grace abounds! Let us confess our individual and collective sins and he will pardon us. “The Redeemer will come to…those who repent of their sins” (Is.59:1-4 & 9-16 & 20).
No matter what you (we) are passing through, do not despair. The storm will be over because (y)our Redeemer liveth! Our land shall overflow again with milk and honey and the desolate land will be populated again and our youngmen will flourish in the land of their birth!
Weekend prayer: Lord, our offenses are many in your sight and our sins testify against us. We acknowledge our sins, rebellion and treachery against you. Hear us and forgive us. Amen!
Have a blessed weekend! Peace be with you!