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Weekly Devotional for 9/8/2024
“‘Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number” Jeremiah 2:32. Perhaps it’s human nature to forget what we should remember and remember what we should forget. Once we’ve obeyed the gospel and the blood of Jesus is washing us clean (1 John 1:7) God will not remember your sins (Isaiah 43:12), yet we continue to punish ourselves and do not take hold of the relationship and life to the full (John 10:10) for which Christ took hold of us (Philippians 3:12). And while God struggles with the memory of the deep love for us when He saved us when we were slaves to sin, gave us food, clothing, and protection, and then wed us to Himself (Ezekiel 16), we forget His love and long to wallow once more in our old life of sin and separation from Him. His bride did this on her wedding day on Mt. Sinai and gave themselves over to the worship of the golden calf. Then through the period of Judges and Kings, the sin became so great that God had to give His bride over to captivity. Shouldn’t we learn from their example and be faithful from the wedding ceremony of the cross and the tomb, so we can dwell with our Bridegroom forever?
