OUR FATHER WHO FORGIVES AND RESTORES THOSE WHO REPENT

Isaiah chapter 59 verses 3 - 5 says this;

For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. 

No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity.

They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.

This passage is an indictment recorded by the prophet Isaiah against the children of Judah.

The first verse here is written to the people of Judah citing the evil they have done including murder, false witness, backbiting and murmuring.

The people of God are also accused of bearing false witness in court and employing fallacious arguments to make their cases. They utter lies and they conceive of trouble by cavorting with it and after a gestation period, give birth to evil.

For all  the evil that they do, the people of God know that they are desperate for salvation and they repent before the Lord for their wrong doing.

The Lord, in His mercy,  makes a covenant with them and restores them,  saying in verse 21;

 “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.

Amen.