Brought Out Of The Ashes

Have you ever created something out of love and greatly delighted in it? Then, have you found something wrong with it—imperfections—and out of rage and hate destroyed it because it did not live up to your expectations? And finally, did you decide to remake it in its original beauty because you still loved it?

This is the sad, tragic, but redeeming story told in Jeremiah 32.

God is about to give Jerusalem into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. Why? God’s people abandoned Him. Jeremiah writes,

“You brought your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror. You gave them this land you had sworn to give their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey. They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey you or follow your law; they did not do what you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.” (Verses 21-23)

The story does not end here, however. God will change their hearts, bring them prosperity, and once again be their God, all through a new, everlasting covenant.  “I will rejoice in doing them good.” (Verse 1)

The new covenant foretells the redemptive life in Christ. As the people of Israel were once redeemed, so we may be. Remember this whenever we fall out with God, for He will call us back. We have only to accept Him through His Son.

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