Good Morning Friends,
“‘Today I have made you a fortified city, an
iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land – against the
kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land. They
will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will
rescue you,’ declares the Lord.” (Jeremiah 1:18-19)
God was telling Jeremiah that everyone would be
against him. The government would be against him – the kings and officials. The
religious leaders would be against him. Even the general people of the land
would be against him. Jeremiah was being called by God to stand alone.
That’s a tough assignment. It’s an assignment
that I wouldn’t choose if it was up to me to choose. I’m sure it’s an
assignment that Jeremiah wouldn’t have chosen either. But that assignment was
God’s choice for Jeremiah. He needed someone for the task – and Jeremiah’s heart
was right and God chose him. Jeremiah was faithful to the assignment God gave
to him. When everyone else turned against him, Jeremiah still stood strong for
the Lord.
And here’s why Jeremiah was able to do that –
he wasn’t really alone! “They will fight against you but will not overcome you,
for I am with you and will rescue you.” That was God’s promise. God was
faithful to that promise. He allowed everyone else to abandon Him and to
abandon Jeremiah. He allowed Jeremiah to be abused and mistreated. But He did
not leave Jeremiah alone … and He would not allow Jeremiah to be destroyed.
No matter how many people turned against
Jeremiah. No matter how hard the task he was assigned grew to be. God never
abandoned Jeremiah and God saw him through to the end.
That was God’s promise to Jeremiah. That is
God’s promise to us. He may ask us to do an assignment that seems impossibly
hard – but He will never leave us alone and He will never allow us to be
destroyed.
His, by Grace, Steve
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