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Discipleship Focus: Provision
- Provision: God gives us what we truly need. God knows our needs better than we can know them. We learn to trust God to provide for us.
As we
move through Jeremiah, we find ourselves stepping more and more into the land
of grace. This is an especially unusual chapter
in that we hear a prophecy given towards Israel rather than Judah.
Jeremiah
did most of his prophesying towards Judah because that was the nation that was
not yet in bondage. But here we get to
hear Jeremiah talk to those who are already in captivity. In truth, they’ve been in captivity for a few
hundred years. Here Jeremiah gives them
a reason to hope for the future. God
tells them that a time will come when they are no longer blind, lame, and pregnant. {For an
explanation of these three analogies, see the blog post linked above.} Instead, God tells the people of Judah that
they will become the grain, wine, and oil.
The people of Israel will go from mourning to joy.
This is a
really neat point to remember. If we
recall the history of Israel – that is, Israel after the split following
Solomon’s reign – we can remember that at no time was the nation loyal to
God. Their leaders were evil. They created new places to worship with their
own idols. The people worshipped Ba’al
and the Asherah. These people could
easily have been dismissed by God and forgotten. But they aren’t God provides for them as
well. Even in their rash and bold sin,
God provides for them, too.
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