‘I
know the plans I have for you... to give you a future and a hope.’
Lord, this was Your long-term purpose for Your people. It was important
that they did not lose sight of this. There would be ‘seventy years’ of
captivity in Babylon (Jeremiah 29:10-11). At times, they must have
wondered, ‘Will this ever end? Is there really something better still to
come?’ Our life on earth may sometimes seem like the ‘seventy years’ in
Babylon: ‘The length of our days is seventy years... yet all they bring
us is trouble and sorrow’! We wonder, Lord, ‘Is there a glorious future
still to come?’ In our times of ‘suffering’ and ‘sorrow’, teach us to
draw our ‘strength’ from Your Word. May we look forward to ‘the Day’
when Christ ‘comes to be glorified in His holy people and to be admired
in all who believe’ (Psalms 90:10; 119:28; 2 Thessalonians 1:4-5,10).
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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