Turning Our Hearts Back to the Father

UV 3625/10000 Turning Our Hearts Back to The Father He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers ( a reconciliation produced by repentance), so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse (of complete destruction) Malachi 4 v 6 This uni-verse is the last verse in the Old Testament and it is the last thing the Lord, God and Father in heaven spoke to humankind for four hundred years before the birth of His Son and Messiah Jesus. Indeed, the heart of the Father in heaven had turned toward His children on earth who were created in His image. It was almost as if the Lord was in deep thought for four hundred years, thinking and planning to do something to turn the hearts of mankind back to Him. The hearts of mankind had been hardened by sin, disobedience and disbelief. Now it had to be softened or broken through repentance, belief and obedience. The greatest reconciliation or healing of relationships that is needed is the reconciliation with our Father in heaven. Once that happens everything else will fall in place. Ohter reconciliations between man and man, man and woman, man and his offspring, man and nature will follow. When believers pray to the Father in heaven in the name of the Son, Jesus, we are turning the heart of the Father to his lost as well as found children on earth. The ones who had taken their share of their inheritance and moved away from Him as well as the ones who had returned or were returning to Him. Love is tough and sometimes the Lord has to allow us to go through much strife and many struggles before we are ready or prepared to return to Him. The alternative to us turning our hearts back to the Father is to face the curse(s) of disobedience, disbelief, distrust. Indeed, the global covid 19 pandemic is a call to repentance of both the church and the world, for hardened hearts to repent and change. God does not curse us but our disobedience and disbelief itself brings its load of hamartia or shortcomings in our lives. We condemn ourselves to eternal destruction for the prodigal son needed to return to the father in order to be saved from his misery. Only the Father knows what our hearts need to be healed, to be delivered, to be blessed. While we as sentient beings want to enjoy our rights, to prosper in the flesh, pander to our senses, the Lord knows our deeper need is a healing of our hearts, to turn back to Him. Our deeper need is to prosper in our souls, not for a lifetime but forever. This we know can only be done or provided for by the Father in heaven which He has done through His older Son Jesus. Unlike the older son in the parable of Jesus, Jesus is the older son who rejoices and longs for the return of all the Father’s children to His loving embrace. Not only does He rejoice but He provided or paid for our passage too.