Billy Graham Perhaps you at one time knew the joy and peace of being born into God’s family. You knew the sweet fellowship of God’s people. You knew the complete happiness and satisfaction of Christ’s presence with you, but you sinned. You went out from the presence of Christ, and you have found that it is night. You have neither the fellowship of Christians nor the fellowship of sinners, and certainly you no longer have the fellowship of Christ.
Perhaps there is no loneliness quite so bitter as the loneliness of a backslidden Christian.
Do you need to be restored?
Yet there is forgiveness for you. As you confess and forsake your sins, your fellowship with Christ will be restored. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
(Adapted from “The Despair of Loneliness” in the February 2017 issue of Decision magazine)
Prayer
Dear Lord, please keep me mindful if I begin to lose my way. Give me a deep longing to be restored into a right relationship with You. I am eternally grateful that regardless of how far I fall away from You, I am never out of Your reach. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Scripture quotation is taken from The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Adapted from “The Despair of Loneliness,” by Billy Graham, Decision magazine, February 2017 ©1952 BGEA.
Perhaps there is no loneliness quite so bitter as the loneliness of a backslidden Christian.
Do you need to be restored?
Yet there is forgiveness for you. As you confess and forsake your sins, your fellowship with Christ will be restored. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
(Adapted from “The Despair of Loneliness” in the February 2017 issue of Decision magazine)
Prayer
Dear Lord, please keep me mindful if I begin to lose my way. Give me a deep longing to be restored into a right relationship with You. I am eternally grateful that regardless of how far I fall away from You, I am never out of Your reach. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Scripture quotation is taken from The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Adapted from “The Despair of Loneliness,” by Billy Graham, Decision magazine, February 2017 ©1952 BGEA.