Devotional

Jeremiah 3:10

In spite all of this, her unfaithful, sister, Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense declares the Lord.

When Israel was offending God by running off and taking on the worship of false idols, God gave her lots and lots of chances to repent, but then he mentions in Jeremiah 3:10, that even after He punished Israel for what she did Judah went and did the same thing. They also worshiped false idols.

However, that is not what I am stuck on in this verse.
God covers how when the nation of Judah repented before God, it was only in word, a pretence, a facade if you will.
How often do we repent and fully plan on doing what we did wrong the first time again?
We say ‘I’m sorry Jesus.’ Just to have the verse about God removing our sin whenever we ask come into play. We aren’t really sorry. We dobt really care. Like a child who apologizes because he’s told to, not because he’s sorry. How often is that us?
God isn’t dumb. He knows when you are honest and when you are not.
How things come down in the end I do not know. How God will sort the sins we repent for and the ones we don’t in the last days is up to Him.
But setting that aside. Don’t we want to love Him enough to truly serve Him? To truly be sorry when we mess up? To try and change?
Isn’t He worthy of that!

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