Jeremiah 30:6-7 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

God has given Jeremiah a word of restoration but this came first. Does your sin and rebellious heart cause you this much pain? Probably not. We have this defensive mechanism that wants to protect our sanity so we justify our actions or blame others. We want to believe that our actions are not worthy of such great travail. What we fail to remember is that all sin no matter how we feel about them are equal in the sight of God.

I lied but I am not a thief. I stole but I didn’t kill. I killed but it wasn’t murder. I murdered but I had to do it. What we don’t want to admit to ourselves is that all sin requires travail before restoration can be accomplished.

Some of us would rather suffer loss than to admit our rebellious heart caused us to sin. Repentance is painful and none of us like pain but without it we are only lying to ourselves.

Lying to yourself is still a lie and as bad as any other sin because it frees you up to continue in sin.

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Would you like to hear that you are the spawn of Satan just because you lied?

I didn’t think so.