I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul. Jeremiah 32:41
The children of Israel have once again fallen into calamity. Their disobedience and worship of Baal has brought them to the point of extinction. Then God, never changing and always faithful, gives the promise of restoration and prosperity.
As you follow Jeremiah’s narrative, his prophesies have immediate interpretation to the exiled children of Israel, but also God’s greater plan of a Messiah/Sacrifice that will bring a new covenant making man’s heart an intimate place of fellowship with God.
The precious character of a generous loving God is very often lost in our fallible tendency to impose human limitations onto our understanding of God’s character. God is the absolute definition of perfect love. He is generous, kind and long suffering. He does not keep score of our sins, He is doing everything short of repossessing our freewill, to save us from ourselves. He rejoices in the good He can do for those that follow, trust and obey.
Where man is stingy, God’s supply has no boundary. Where man holds a grudge to settle a score, God is long suffering, forgiving and purposefully forgetful of our transgressions. He delights in good, His and yours!
Have a lovely day,
Gretchen