The man is prison. All his resources are unusable and not
assessable. He along with all the people in his nation are also facing deportation
and becoming slaves to another nation. Put yourself in his place. Now imagine
that someone spoke to you and told you that you should look ahead a few years
and prepare to come back to your land and your home. In this awful position and
predicament you were now instructed to go ahead and buy some adjoining fields
next to your land.
What a foolish and ridiculous idea that
would be. It would probably feel that
this advice was downright mean and vindictive because what hope would a slave
have at recovering their land they were being forced to leave by a conquering
army. It would be a time of little or no hope in the future.
This story is true … Jeremiah the
prophet is told by God of an impending judgment coming against the nation of
Judah. It was during the very siege of
Jerusalem, when Jeremiah’s prophecies of judgment and destruction were being
fulfilled, that Jeremiah was instructed by the Lord to go and buy this adjoining
field. As crazy as it seems, Jeremiah
obeyed and took his silver and bought the field. Jeremiah believed in the God who was bringing
judgment. Jeremiah gave his life over to the Lord God knowing that the Lord God
had delivered His people in bleak and hopeless times before. He knew the Lord God was the God of mighty
powers and wonders and He could make this impossible thing come about. Jeremiah knew that someday the land would be
in his family again because God had promised it.
This is one of the greatest examples of
faith in the assurances of God’s provisions and promises found in the Bible. If
God promises something, you can be sure that it will come about. God still delivers in hard and dry
years. He delivers those in slavery. His
promises for the future are true and He will come through for us. He was and is the Lord God of the universe
and nothing is impossible for Him.
“Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the
heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too
hard for you” (Jeremiah 32:17 NIV).
Suggested Bible Reading ... Jeremiah 32
No comments:
Post a Comment