‘Is there any Word from the Lord?’ -
‘Yes! There is a Word from the Lord.’ Lord, Your Word wasn’t exactly
what the king wanted to hear - ‘You will be handed over to the king of
Babylon’ (Jeremiah 37:17). You were going to bless Your people - but
they would have to be patient: Things were going to get an awful lot
worse before they would get much better! Before their restoration - “I
will bring them back and restore them to this place’, Your people faced
captivity - ‘They will be taken to Babylon.’There was bad news - a
captivity of ‘seventy years.’There was good news - the captivity
wouldn’t last forever (Jeremiah 37:27:22; 29:10-11)! Lord, You speak of
Your blessing - ‘It will certainly come’, but You also say, ‘Wait for
it’ (Habakkuk 2:3). Help us to listen to all that You say to us - and
not ‘only hear what we want to hear’!
By Your grace, Lord, You call us to be Your soldiers and servants. Help us not to be "fearful and fainthearted" (Deuteronomy 19:19). Help us to be "good soldiers of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3). When we hear your challenging question: "Who is on the Lord's side?", may we give our committed answer: "By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine, we are on the Lord's side; Saviour, we are Thine."
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