God will Restore the Backsliding Musician

                                                God will Restore the Backsliding Musician 

       Hosea 14:4-5 states, “I will heal there backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.  I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.  His branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.”

       This Bible message from God through the prophet Joel is to the backsliding musician, or any person, for that matter.  If you are a backslider, God will heal you!  God promised that if Israel would (verse 1) “return unto the LORD thy God” that He would “love them freely”.  God’s anger would also be assuaged if they would only turn their hearts back to Him.  

       If you feel dry and parched spiritually, God will “be as the dew” unto your soul.  It is wonderful that God has promised the backslider is that if he or she will repent, He will moisten the heart as dew.   Furthermore, God proclaims that the former backslider will grow like a lily.  The Hebrew word parach (6524) translated here as grow literally means to break forth as a bud.  God promised that if the backslider would repent and turn back to Him, this person’s life would flourish and grow again.