Leviticus 26:40

Leviticus 26:40 says, If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;  God told Moses that there was a way to restoration and that it began by the people confessing their sins.  In order for us to be restored to God today, we must confess our sins and ask His forgiveness by putting our faith in Jesus Christ as our Redeemer.  Verse forty-one adds, And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:  God said that when the people of Israel failed to live up to their part of the covenant relationship that He established with them, then He no longer walked with them.  God then added that a part of the restoration required the people of Israel to humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept punishment for their iniquities.  If we today as followers of Christ allow sin back into our lives, we must humble our hearts and confess them to God and accept responsibility for them.  Verse forty-two continues, Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.  I don't believe that this means that God ever forgot these covenants, but instead that He would again fulfill His part of the covenants.  The covenants always were conditional, based on the people being obedient to their part of the covenant, since God was always faithful to His when they were.  Verse forty-three states, The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.  God said that the land would enjoy her sabbaths until the people confessed and returned to Him.  There was quite an indictment against the people of Israel, God's chosen people.  They had despised God's judgments and abhorred His statutes.  As God's people today, we cannot just ignore His laws and then expect everything in life to be good.  Verse forty-four adds, And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.  God said that even when He removed His protective hand and the people of Israel were carried away into the land of their enemies that He would not cast them away, because He is God and He had made a covenant with them.  I believe that once we enter into a covenant relationship with God by putting our faith in Jesus Christ that the covenant is an everlasting covenant.  We may suffer problems if we allow sin back in our lives, but we will never lose our salvation, because it is secured by God.  Verse forty-five continues, But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.  God said that He would never forget the covenant that He made with the people of Israel when He brought them out of the land of Egypt, and He will never forget the covenant that He makes with us when we accept Christ as our Savior and Lord.  Verse forty-six concludes, These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.  These were the statutes and judgments and laws made by the LORD between Him and the people of Israel as given to Moses on Mt. Sinai.  We today can have a relationship with God only through accepting the way of salvation given by God when Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and arose victorious over all sin, which was and is the only way to salvation.