Returning

Yesterday I started the She Reads Truth lent bible study and it has already been so good for my heart. Today the theme was returning to God. I am in the midst of the toughest battle I have faced thus far in my life. My trust in the Lord's goodness has never wavered so much as it has in the last year. I have often felt like God has forgotten about me or even worse, that he just didn't care. These thoughts have made me feel far from the Lord and often times very guilty because I KNOW God is faithful, I KNOW that he loves me, I KNOW that his plan is perfect, but being in the middle of this trial has made it nearly impossible for me to FEEL those things. 

Then today I read the words from Jeremiah 24:4-7: 

Then the word of the Lord came to me: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not pluck them up. I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

A sweet promise from the Lord. He will always bring me back to himself. He will give me a heart to know him better, he will be MY God, I will return to him with my whole heart, and he will take me back...even in my faithlessness he will take me back. 

Today my prayer is that I will return to God with my whole heart. I pray that even though I don't know when or how this battle will end, I will trust the Lord today in the midst.