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Jeremiah chapter 34 verse 11.

But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free and brought them into

subjection as slaves.

The whole picture here in Jeremiah 34 is God's people turning from sin initially, but then going right

back to the sin they had turned from.

And I read this and I think about this tendency in my own life.

I'm guessing yours too.

I mean, how many times do we do we sin against God and confess our sin,

express sorrow over sin, and yet the next day we can go right back to it.

Our sinfulness is so pervasive.

We need Jesus.

Like every moment, every day in new ways and praise God that his mercies are new for us every morning.

But to see this picture in Jeremiah 34 and their foolishness you're reading this and you're thinking why are you going back to that?

You've already repented of that.

But then I see in the people of God in Jeremiah 34 a picture of my own heart and my own foolishness.

So God, we pray, help us to see the foolishness of our own hearts in this way, that once we confess

sin, repent of it, we turn from it. God help us to run from it, to repent and run from it, not to

repent and then run back to it, God, the foolishness of our own hearts, the sinfulness of our own hearts, God, we need your

grace, we need your mercy, we know Jesus that you have not only paid the price for our forgiveness

of sin, but for our freedom from sin.

We don't have to run back to it.

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