Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"My people shall be satisfied with My goodness"
Text: Jeremiah 31:14
A TIME OF GREAT REJOICING
Those who will be brought back to Israel would have so many reasons to rejoice in the Lord. There will be a great and special sense of gratitude towards God and His goodness given!
“Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
And the young men and the old, together;
For I will turn their mourning to joy,
Will comfort them,
And make them rejoice rather than sorrow.
I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance,
And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.”
Jeremiah 31:13-14
1. “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old, together;
for I will turn their mourning to joy”
a) The people who will rejoice are noted:
i) The unmarried virgin.
ii) The young men.
iii) The older people.
b) Their expression of joy:
i) In dance.
ii) As a community together.
2. “For I will turn their mourning to joy, will comfort them,
and make them rejoice rather than sorrow”
a) The LORD Himself will be involved.
i) He will turn their mourning into joy.
ii) He will comfort them.
b) He would make them rejoice.
c) He would remove sorrow from them.
3. “I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance”
a) The priests of God would often wonder if they would have enough
to keep body and soul together.
b) This time round, God would give in abundance.
c) The soul of the priests would be satiated for such would be the Lord’s provision.
4. “And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD”
a) God’s people would be satisfied with what is provided.
b) The people cannot but be satisfied with God’s goodness.
c) Returning Israel would be God’s people blessed abundantly.