Reading: 2 Peter 2:17-22, John 8:21-30, Job 5, Ezekiel 16

Recall:
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for people are slaves to whatever masters them. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was passed on to them. It has happened to them according to the true proverb,
“The dog turns back to its own vomit,”
and,
“The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”
2 Peter 2:19-22

How sick is your heart, says the Lord GOD, that you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen whore... Ezekiel 16:30

Reflect:
Really graphic language, each in their own way, in these passages: Ezekiel speaking of whoring and Peter bringing up being a slave and quoting the Hebrew scripture of a dog returning to its vomit. But man, as I look at my life and the habits that often keep me from becoming everything I want to become and that can keep me from a relationship with God and others, those images really describe what I feel like sometimes.
Respond:
God, I will focus my attention on you. Every morning I will turn to you. Because I can't do it myself. The horrible truth about myself is that I am..no I am not...but my behavior often reflects that of the whore, the slave, the dog returning to its own vomit. I want to change.