Jeremiah 33:14-15
“‘The day will come,’ says the LORD, ‘when I will do for Israel and Judah all the good things, I have promised them. In those days and at that time I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David’s line. He will do what is just and right throughout the land.’”
In today’s text, we find Jeremiah as a man exhausted and drained from his steadfast obedience. He has been fighting a battle, not with weapons, but with words; not against nations, but against the stubbornness of God’s own people. It has been a long, grinding, uphill struggle. And now, for his faithfulness, he sits in a prison cell. Everything he foretold is coming to pass before their eyes. The city crumbles, the nation unravels, and the people are scattered, trembling in the chaos.
Despair, Doom, and gloom have settled into the streets and villages. In these real life experiences, the promises of God feel distant, almost forgotten. The questions are heavy, almost like a deep sigh of defeat: Where will salvation come from now? Who are we when everything we believed in has crumbled? Has God finally turned His back?
Defeated. Exiled. Hopeless. Sagging and tired, too tired even to lift their heads.
And it is precisely into that moment, into the rubble of their confidence and the exhaustion of their souls, that God speaks a word that cuts through the darkness: “I will fulfill the good promise I made…”
Not “I might.” Not “I’ll think about it.” But I will.
Even when the people cannot see a future, God declares one. Even when their world is falling apart, God is quietly, faithfully putting the pieces together.
This is at the heart of Advent hope. God gave the world His very best, not when we were strong, but when we were broken, so that we could experience His best even in the middle of our darkest nights.
When life demands more of you than you feel you have to give, when the weight is heavy and the road is steep, lean into the promise of God’s best. Lean into the assurance that light is already on its way "splitting the darkness."
You see in Jesus , we glimpse what the old hymn calls “the dawn of redeeming grace.” A dawn that breaks into prisons. A dawn that rises over exiles. A dawn that reaches tired, wilting hearts and lifts them again.
And that dawn is still breaking in upon us today.
You see in Jesus , we glimpse what the old hymn calls “the dawn of redeeming grace.” A dawn that breaks into prisons. A dawn that rises over exiles. A dawn that reaches tired, wilting hearts and lifts them again.
And that dawn is still breaking in upon us today.
That's GOOD NEWS isn't it!!
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