“The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”
Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)
Time spent remembering the love of God for our soul is the best use of the time we have.
Jeremiah starts this wonderful chapter by remembering what God said when He first appeared to them – do you remember what God said to you when He first made Himself known to you?
The memory of God’s love extended to us is what brings hope for the future. He loved us then and He loves us now and so His love will result in good for us in the future. Read this chapter, see the progression and hear the wonderful Words of the gospel spoken again.
vs 11 the promise of deliverance through redemption
vs 15 the prophecy of the babies of Bethlehem being killed as Herod sought to kill Jesus
vs 16 – 20 the mourning that brings God’s blessing
vs 31-34 the promise of the new covenant that doesn’t depend on the people
vs 35-40 a declaration of God’s power and determination to deliver His people
I love verse 26 when Jeremiah wakes up and says his sleep was pleasant, apparently this came to Jeremiah as a vision from the LORD in the night.
Oh that we would dream of the gospel- that we would go to sleep thinking of God’s love for us, and wake up refreshed and blessed full of the sure knowledge that He loves us dearly and will never let go. He will never let go, for He has redeemed us, He has brought us into His new covenant of love in His Son Christ Jesus, a covenant that we cannot break for it is His work in our hearts that seals us
to Him.
to Him.
How about trying an experiment tonight? Before we go to sleep let us read Romans 8:31-39, and meditate on it, even trying to memorize a sentence or 2. Let us see if we wake up saying “Our sleep was pleasant to us”.
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