Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, from your inmost being:

“In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old.”
(Lamentations 1:7)

That’s one of the hardest things about backsliding, Jesus –

remembering the happier, more innocent times of my past…

before the blind, bullheaded foolishness of my sin
robbed me of the priceless blessings I took for granted.

It’s torture.

I can hardly bear to imagine the joyful existence that could have been mine by now

had I never strayed from the safety of Your claims on me.

At the time, I thought Your rules were restrictive.

Now I know they were to my life

what guardrails are to a mountain road.

I ignored them
broke through them
eager to experience what I thought was freedom

only to plunge down, down, down

to this.

I’m older, now

wiser
absolutely determined:

never again will I leave Your path’s

protection.

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Deuteronomy 27:18; Psalms 119:67; Proverbs 5:22-23; Proverbs 7:21-23; Proverbs 10:16-17; Proverbs 12:26; Proverbs 20:1; Isaiah 53:2-6; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Peter 2:21-25; 1 Peter 4:1-3

What is Lazaroo?

Take Me Deeper

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.