Repent now everyone

They said, 'Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.' – Jeremiah 25.5-6

Repentance is one of those things we don’t like to talk about a lot. It is kind of hard for people to accept that there is a need for repentance. Everyone else needs it, but we don’t like to admit it because it says that we have something we have to repent from.

Of course the reality is that everyone needs it because ‘all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.’ We know that ‘there is no one who is good enough, not a single one.’ We know that the wages of sin is death. We know that God says later ‘all men everywhere must repent.’

The wonderful truth though is that God does anything about our sin. He could have just cut us off and started over again. Instead, because God is love he provided a path to repentance. Despite our sin He still loved us enough to give His only Son to pay the penalty of sin, which is death. Then, He offers the free gift of everyone who will trust in His Son.

There is no hope apart from repentance and repentance is impossible without Christ. All men, everywhere, must repent. The message is as real today as it was when Jeremiah wrote them.