Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

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.

So this verse tells us afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves

they had set free and brought them into subjection as slaves again.

And so we see this picture that I'm guessing is familiar in each of our lives.

How prone are we to experience conviction of sin?

Turn from it and start to walk in obedience but then to turn right around and go back to that

sin. We are so prone to wander, so prone to run back to sin once we've confessed and repented

of it. I encourage you to think right now, examine your heart.

How have you repented of sin in the past?

And by the past could be a while ago or could be from yesterday.

Have you turned from sin, confess sin, and then how are you today?

Tempted, prone to turn right back to that sin.

God, we pray that you'd help us not to do this.

And the picture here in Jeremiah 34 they're turning from sin seemed so fickle.

They were so foolish to go right back to it.

And God, we know we are prone to be fickle and foolish like this.

So God, we pray that you'd help us to flee sin in all of its forms.

God, we pray that today you would help us not to turn back to sin.

You would save us from ourselves all day long.

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