OUR FATHER WHO FORGIVES THE REPENTANT

Isaiah chapter 59 verses 12 - 13 says this;

For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us.

Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the Lord,  turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.

This passage represents a sincere confession of wrong-doing by God's people.

They tell the Lord of their many sins and how they rebelled against Him and stirred others to revolt against Him as well as how they traded in deception.

They reveal that the consequences of their deeds have caught up with them and now righteousness and justice cannot be found in their midst. There is no stable platform for truth among them and honesty cannot exist.

In their society, any attempt to avoid evil is punished as verse 15 says;

 Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.

The conditions in this degraded culture have deteriorated so far that the judgement of the Lord lines up against the people.

However, the people who repent are spared by the arrival of the redeemer as verse 20 says;

“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,” declares the Lord.

Those who humbly acknowledge their iniquities are given an eternal covenant with the Lord. Verse 21 says it this way;

 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “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—fromq as this time on and forever,” says the Lord.

Amen

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