Return to Me {Thoughtful Thursday}

As promised, here is my Thoughtful Thursday post for the month of February.

This morning as I was doing my devotional I realized just how far we can "feel" from God sometimes. I'm sure most (if not all) of you can relate. It's easy sometimes to think that a certain place or person or job will somehow have the power to bring you back to that moment when you felt closest to God. We try in all our human efforts to get that "feeling" back. We connect certain emotions or actions to our closeness with God. But, as my devotional says, these things don't grant us access to God. The CROSS grants us access to God.

So this morning I ask that we - in all our brokenness, in all our mess, in all our ugliness, in all our lacking - return to Him. Return to Him with all our hearts. The cross of Jesus is the path by which we return to our holy, gracious God (from She Reads Truth). There's no need to cover up our brokenness - the blood of Jesus is our covering.


"Return to Me" - Jeremiah 24:7