Year 9, Day 86: Jeremiah 33

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Jeremiah 33 gives us a great witness.  Yes, it proclaims the restoration of the Hebrew people.  They will not be forgotten, and their exile will end.  Furthermore, it gives us the promise of the line of David that will never be broken.  That points us to Christ, which is also important.

What’s really powerful in this passage, though, is the Lord’s reminder about how He treats covenants.  Human beings can break them.  Human beings can forget them until it’s convenient to remember them.  But not so with God.  God remembers His covenants.  He doesn’t go against His Word.

After all, hasn’t the Lord made the sun rise every day?  Hasn’t the Lord made the sun set every night?  Don’t the seasons come and go?  If God can keep His covenant every single day of the year for millennia, isn’t it reasonable to think that He will keep His covenant with people with whom He has developed relationship?

God is trustworthy.  He isn’t trustworthy because we’ve earned it.  He isn’t trustworthy because we deserve His trust.  He is trustworthy because it is in His nature to be trustworthy.  He is trustworthy because He is God.

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