Even now, says the Lord, return to Me with your whole heart; for I am gracious and merciful.
Today's Gospel Acclamation provides us with a comforting message from our Lord. If we return to Him with our whole heart, if we repent of our sins and confess and fall into God's embrace, He will accept us. He will not turn us away.
Why? God answers that question for us. He is gracious and merciful. God wants to save us. He wants to forgive us. He wants to shower us with His grace.
However, God does not force Himself on us. We have free will. That is one of God's gifts to us, one of the ways we have been made in His image and likeness, and He does not violate it. So God waits for us to return to Him in humility and love.
Will we take God up on His offer?
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