Whore

Jeremiah 3:1

...You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me?...

     As you can see by the dot dot dots there's more to that verse, but I want to focus on that for a moment. As I was reading this this morning God's word really spoke to my heart. I have to ask myself this daily question. "Will I play the whore today?"

     Will I give my heart to things of this world, when as a Child of God my heart belongs to Him. He is my portion, and all I need while the things of this world are so much less than what I need. If even I were to gain the whole world, I would still be empty without Him. 

     I find great significance in the fact that the term God uses here is "whore."

     Israel were God's people at the time. His bride! But they continuously turned to the things of this world, and when they did this they didn't just turn from Him, but treated Him as if He didn't matter. They would ignore His commands and His heart for them, and then pretend as if they had done nothing wrong. They would worship the foreign gods, making sacrifices to them. They even sacrificed their babies to one foreign god, and they weren't even real gods. They were man made, or even God made gods. They worshipped rocks, trees, statues, and other earthly things, and God looked on with a broken heart. Not only because they had walked away from Him, but His broken heartedness was for them. He knew the direction in which they were going, was not a good one.

     As I reach the end of the chapter God is calling Israel back to Him. Saying "If you'll just confess your wrong and come back to me I will restore you. I will not stay angry." 

     This is the same call that He gives us when we play the whore. 

1 John 1:9

IF we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive

and cleanse us from all unrighteousness

     It breaks God's heart to see us in sin! He wants to restore us to glory! He doesn't want to see us playing the whore. A big thing we must realize is that playing the whore is sin....

So let me run

Run after You

You and only You

Blind my eyes to all this world

That cannot make me full

Break my heart when I believe 

this world is best for me

Let my heart be so consumed

with You my everything