Accept your backsliding as common – as something that happens to many people who at first improve emotionally and then fall back.
- See it as part of your human fallibility, but don't give up! ...
- Use the ABCs of REBT and clearly see what you did to fall back to your old behaviors.
What does God say about backsliding?
To be faithful, thus to believe backsliding is a reversion, in principle upholds the Apostle Paul's condition in salvation: "If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9 (TNIV).
Will God restore a backslider?
All throughout the Bible, we see how the highest authority on backsliding and forgiveness responds to a the repentant backslider; God himself taught that a backslider can indeed be restored and find forgiveness (Luke 15:11-32). The backslider (or prodigal son in this case) repented when he came to his senses.
