“This is what the LORD says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time, then my covenant with David my servant—and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering before me—can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.”
Jeremiah 33:20-21 (NIV)
The bitterness of sudden destruction.
The warnings went on for years, many prophets and many forms of warnings, but all sent from one LORD to save His people from destruction. They wouldn’t listen, they rejected the Word of the LORD over and over again. Then destruction happened. Jerusalem was destroyed, the unthinkable was forced upon them, and they had to face the reality of the Words of the LORD.
They wouldn’t humble themselves, so He broke them, He humbled them, He forced their faces into the dust, He brought destruction unto their families and their community.
And yet this is the LORD we are speaking of- the LORD the LORD who maintains love to thousands, who forgives wickedness rebellion and sin and yet still punishes – and so the LORD speaks Words of hope to His destroyed people through His prophet Jeremiah. In this 33rd chapter of Jeremiah we read that the solid ground on which true hope rests for a child of God, is not best wishes, nor inexorable fate for they are powerless. NO - true hope for a child of God rests on the covenant of love that God has made with David, fulfilled for us in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. True hope for us rests on the truth that we are powerless to break His covenant with day and night – and therefore we can not break His covenant through Christ to us, that we received through our body and the blood of our Saviour.
Our hope is in Him!
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