It's always hard to admit when you get it wrong, especially so it seems when you need to admit before God that you have let him down. Fortunately God always listens to the repentant heart openly confessing sin and failure and delights to forgive. Today's passage tells the story of national repentance. Israel having spent over 20 years far from God and resisting His will eventually through the words of Samuel see the need to lament their sin and come back to God. Samuel as he guides the nation into repentance and faith provides a great model for all hearts that seek to repent and come back to God