99e We sin away our comforts!
"I will restore comforts unto him!" Isaiah 57:18
This precious promise refers to backsliders—to those who have gone on frowardly in their hearts.
Sin makes us miserable, as it . . .
leads us from God,
blinds our minds,
pollutes our consciences,
brings us into bondage, and
obscures our eternal prospects.
When sin has been indulged:
our hearts become hard,
our consciences benumbed,
our tempers irritable, and
our conduct perverse.
Then we become miserable!
Everything goes wrong.
No one acts right.
We rise up in rebellion against God.
Prayer is irksome.
Praise is a task.
The Bible is boring.
Our course is folly.
But God will . . .
arrest us,
convict us,
make us smart,
thoroughly humble us
—and then He will restore comforts unto us!
His grace will comfort us, when it . . .
pardons our sins,
reveals the Savior,
removes our guilt, and
unfolds the gracious character of God.