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So rend your heart, and not your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm. – Joel 2:13 NKJV.
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:22-23 NKJV.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. – 1 John 1:9 NKJV.
The British transport company Megabus says that a lot of people are leaving a lot of things on their buses. Hard to believe some of the things that people leave behind. According to the company some of the more unusual items left behind include: “three bales of hay, family tree documents, a frozen turkey, false teeth, a cooking wok and multiple lone shoes and socks.” Items left behind on their buses just in the month of May include: a “Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy, a jar of honey, a guitar, a Radiohead vinyl record, insulin, an electric razor, a Neil Diamond CD, a single shoe and a collection of historic coins and stamps.”
If you lost any of those things on a Megabus, go back and report your loss to the company. They say that 95% of the things lost on the buses are eventually returned to their owner. I just wonder how you could possibly lose three bales of hay on a bus? (UPI 06.20.25)
Some people pray to receive Jesus their Savior and are born again believing upon Jesus and receiving eternal life as we are told in John 3:16. They follow the Lord Jesus in baptism and become a member of a local church. But somehow after attending the church for a while they wander away and it is as though they have left their faith behind. How can anyone do that? It happened to me, but I know in my heart that I was saved, born again, when I prayed to receive Jesus as my Savior. I am thankful, very thankful that once we become part of the family of God (That is relationship.) that God doesn’t kick us out of the family when we begin to act like we are not a Christian.
The Bible is very clear about that when we become part of the family of God and have eternal life it cannot become uneternal life. Romans 8:38-39 says: “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Jesus says much the same thing in John 10:27-30: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.”
So, if you have left your faith behind, you’re still part of the family. Like the Prodigal Son, go back, you’re still part of the family. You just need to make up with Jesus and restore your fellowship with Him. 1 John 1:9 tells you what to do! Remember the mercies of the Lord are new every morning! Go back!