Witness, it’s time to Come Home
Book of Ezra
“What has happened to us is a result of our evil deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins deserved and have given us a remnant like this.” –Ezra 9:13
Filth.
Regret.
Deeds that will never leave your mind.
Haunting you and making you feel like you will be forsaken.
Forsaken
Forsaken.
But that’s what the devil makes you believe.
Not what is truth.
The book of Ezra is exactly what it is.
The restoration process.
“Restoration for what?”
For someone who is finally ready to return to Him.
It’s not just a passage, it’s a meaning.
A pattern to be read and interpreted as such.
Return. Rebuild. Renew.
Before anything is rebuilt, the people had to return to the LORD.
Or in this case, come back to yourself.
And I know what you might be thinking…
“I’m beyond help. I cannot return. I’ve done too much and am the epitome of filth and bad things.”
So you believe.
But let me repeat this scripture one more time:
“What has happened to us is a result of our evil deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins deserved and have given us a remnant like this.” –Ezra 9:13
Where you stop reading, I keep going.
Where your eyes might pull away is once you get to the word “guilt.”
Because you feel it.
In your bones.
It haunts your mind.
Your heart is heavy with it.
And you cannot even look at yourself or think He would want you.
But He does.
He does.
He’s waiting for you to return to Him.
Arms wide open.
Tears of relief when, at last, you allow yourself to.
Imagine it…
You walk up to Him.
Frightened and broken.
You brace yourself for a scolding, but instead…
This…
He wraps His arms around you tightly and rejoices, “Finally! You’ve come home! Finally!”
Do you honestly think that God doesn’t want you to come home?
Do you honestly think that He does not miss you every. Single. day?
His heart breaks to see you weep and hurt yourself.
You curse the sins you believe will never be forgiven.
But He watches you in all you are and loves you more than you love yourself.
If you think you cannot return to Him.
He has sent me to tell you, “Come home!”
That was it!
This is it!
“Come home!”
It’s time.
You are ready for this.
All the blessings.
All the trials you have suffered.
He wants to bless you—rebuild you and give you the second chance you don’t believe you are deserving of yet.
“Come home!”
So that he may rebuild you and restore you in all the greatness and glory you are worthy of!
Because remember… the hardest part is facing it.
Coming home.
Feeling like you’ve failed.
Like you hate yourself.
That’s the hardest part.
The surrender.
The acceptance of it.
But that’s it there.
The hardest part.
Once you can overcome yourself and come home.
It all gets easier.
Everything carries out—almost quickly.
I won’t say there aren’t challenges.
But this is your second chance.
The real one this time.
Stop living in exile.
Stop adjusting to less than the world can provide—God is abundance.
Stop calling surviving “normal.”
Because it isn’t.
“Come home!”
Then start with the center.
Start with your heart.
Start with the thing that reconnects you to God and yourself.
Don’t rebuild your life from the outside in.
Rebuild it from the inside out.
Then you will be renewed.
He will restore you completely—your whole identity.
Let go of the other one.
Let it go.
It no longer serves you.
All that the world made you let it go and rise to what God can make you.
Rise to the limitless of God’s abundance.
He sees you.
He’s ready to embrace you.
And then suddenly it will all come together.
Swiftly.
You will cry, but not of sadness or joy.
Why?
Because you came home.
And once you have returned, keep this in mind.
Rebuild it right this time.
You’ve got this.
And you’ve got God and time on your side.
