Nearing the Point of No Return
Greetings in the Lord~ There really is such thing as a point of no return. It's sometimes hard to know when or where that is exactly, but after you've reached it, you simply just know. You are too far along to go back to the starting point; too much has been invested to start over; and maybe, as in the case of sin, you have sinned so long you have simply forgotten how to do right or what God desires of us. It's interesting that the concept of repentance is to "turn back," to turn away from what you are doing and go back the opposite direction on a righteous path. So in essence, it is possible to sin long enough to not be able to repent anymore. And it's on the other side of this 'point of no return' that God uses judgments to bring people back into relationship with Him, or in the case where the sinners never knew God, He brings an end to their wickedness so that righteous seed may be planted in their hearts. In either scenario, God's judgm...