Repentance Promise
The Bible says, “If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers,
with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I
also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts
be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also
my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.” Leviticus
26:40-42 (KJV)
President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation for a National Day of Fasting,
Humiliation and Prayer, April 30, 1863:
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties
of heaven. We have been preserved, the many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as
no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace
and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all
these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become
too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to God that made us It behooves
us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
Although this promise of repentance was given to Israel, it is applicable to America today. What
our 16th President said 150 years ago is necessary yet today!
Daily
Chronological Bible Reading: Leviticus 26-27
