“If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” – 1 John 2:1

The motive power which draws back the backslider is the cord of love, the band of a man, which makes him feel he must go back to God with weeping and repentance, because God loves him still. What man among you hath a son who has disobeyed him and gone from him, and is living in drunkenness, and in all manner of lust? If you have in anger told him, so that he doubts it not, that you have struck his name out of your family, and will not regard him as a child any longer, do you think that your severity will induce him to return to you in love? Far from it. But suppose instead thereof, you still assure him that you love him; that there is always a place at your table for him, and a bed in your house for him, ay, and better still, a warm place in your heart for him; suppose he sees your tears and hears your prayers for him, will not this draw him? Yes, indeed, if he be a son. It is even thus between thy God and thee, O backslider…Surely, if anything will draw you back, this will. “Ah !’ saith the wandering son, “my dear Father loves me still. I will arise and go to Him. I will not vex so tender a heart. I will be His loving son again.” God does not say to you prodigals, who once professed His name, “I have unchilded you, I have cast you away,” but He says, “I love you still; and for My name’s sake will I restrain My wrath that I cut you not off.” Come to your offended Father, and you shall find that He has not repented of His love but will embrace you still. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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