Preventative health care is essential. The more we can do to prevent sickness, the better. Sometimes, however, we still get diseases. When that happens, we want to get help as soon as possible. We want to catch cancer at an early stage. We want to detect heart problems before a heart attack. But if we ignore symptoms or delay care, a disease can progress to the point that there is no remedy. That’s frightening. Even scarier is the same can happen spiritually.
Israel had a long history of breaking God’s laws, so God sent prophets to warn the people to return to Him. But 2 Chronicles 36:16 says the people despised God’s words “…until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people until there was no remedy.”
God wanted to heal His people, but they rebelled until a remedy was impossible. Don’t make that same mistake. God wants to heal you of your sin—don’t persist in the disease of sin until the only remedy is God’s wrath and judgment.