Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"Found grace in the wilderness"
Text: Jeremiah 31:2
LOOKING AT THE FUTURE
The Captives in exile in Babylon were concerned as to whether there would be a future for them. How would the LORD regard them?
“‘At the same time,’ says the LORD,
‘I will be the God of all the families of Israel,
and they shall be My people.’
Thus says the LORD:
‘The people who survived the sword
Found grace in the wilderness—
Israel, when I went to give him rest.'”
Jeremiah 31:1-2
1. “‘At the same time,’ says the LORD, ‘I will be the God of all the families of Israel,
and they shall be My people.'”
a) The LORD gave a strong word of assurance to the Captives.
b) He will be their God.
i) Not of some families.
ii) But of all the families of Israel.
c) The LORD will regard them as His people.
i) This was truly grace and mercy.
ii) This reflected the lovingkindness of God.
2. “Thus says the LORD: ‘The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness'”
a) The LORD gave this word to all the survivors of the Babylonian Captivity.
b) They had found grace in the wilderness.
c) This was how they could have survived.
3. “Israel, when I went to give him rest”
a) God had gone to His people in Babylon.
b) He had chastised them.
c) But He had not abandoned them.
d) He went to them to give rest to all the weary in the land.