#377: God's Grace to Restore

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Episode 377 - Show Notes:

I know people who once walked closely with Christ. They served the Lord. The loved Jesus, but over time something happened. They became distracted by the world. They walked away from their relationship with God. Today they wonder if God would receive them back. Would God restore the relationship they once had?
Your relationship with Jesus Christ is like any other relationship. It has to be maintained. No relationship ever stays the same. You are either growing closer to the Lord or you are drifting away. You never just stand still. You don’t just become a Christian and that’s it.
The good news is that God offers to us restoring grace. When we have blown it, when we walk away, when we stumble and fall. The grace of God is available to restore us and to bring us back to where we need to be in God.
Restore - to bring back, to reinstate, to return, and to re-establish. If you come back to God this is exactly what he will do. He will restore you! It’s important to know that being restored by grace requires a change of heart.
Restoration requires a change of heart, a change of mind, and a change of direction. Do you know what all of this adds up to? Repentance. When we fail, we need to repent. When we do our God is faithful to restore. No one is too far gone that they cannot be restored by God.

Lamentations 5:21 – “Restore us to yourself, Lord, that we may return; renew our days as of old.”

Romans 5:20 – “But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.”