"I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from Me." This promise! God will never stop doing good to me. It' is just this --- it is not my definition of "good." He changes my heart, my definition, to His. And that's good. We were never born to be in charge of our lives. Born to worship the One Who created us. Jeremiah 32:40.
Beyond myself reading this passage. Jeremiah buys a piece of property from jail! This piece of ground signifies hope. There is a new day coming! Houses. Fields. Vineyards. Gardens. They are coming back! And Matthew Henry wisely writes: "It is good to manage even our worldly affairs in faith; to do common business with reference to the Providence and Promise of God." I had a scary accident recently, hydroplaning my SUV across three lanes of busy interstate traffic at noon. I missed all the cars. Every time I tell the story, I feel that I need to reference my existence to God.
Jeremiah sighs in praise to the God he worships and adores: "Ah LORD, Thous has made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee." Jeremiah 32:17. And there it is right there. A man in prison, unjustly. And I complained incessantly this year because Worker's Comp never allowed me to visit a doctor for the minor trauma I suffered on my face. Great in counsel; mighty in work; Thine Eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men. Jer 32:19. What more do I really need to lay life on His lap?
WHERE SHALL THE WORD BE FOUND, WHERE WILL THE WORD RESOUND? NOT HERE, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SILENCE - T. S. Eliot Hebrews 8:10 ~ This is the new covenant
Dear God, Would you do Your Will in us.Put Your Laws into our minds,
And Write Your Laws on our hearts, in this new covenant.
Be our God, this day
We are yours!
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