Jeremiah 33:2-3 This is God's Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lasting, known everywhere as GOD: 'Call to me and I will answer you. I'll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own. (The Message)
Chapter 33 concludes a section called 'The Book of Consolation', which depicts the ultimate restoration of both Israel and Judah and also introduces the New Covenant. The New Covenant promised believers inner transformation. It says we would get to know God in a personal way, our sins would be forgiven and we would be able respond to God from the heart, not just with the law. When Jeremiah was in jail, God sent a second messenger to him strongly urging him to ask God for answers to the things that only God could know. And Jeremiah was a person that if anything could go wrong, it
would, but he stuck it out and never gave up. Jeremiah lived what he wrote about and wrote about what he lived, he was the same person.
The Message asks the question: 'What happens when everything you believe in and live by is smashed to bits by circumstances? Does it lead to abandonment of God? --- We know it can happen. Some will push Him away totally and others crave Him.
When we are struggling and aren't strong and can't figure things out, we look for people who have been through what we're going through, we ask how they did it and how they survived. We ask them for support with our mess' and ask for help to stay focused on God and not ourselves.
God wants us to do that with Him. Turn to Him. So slow down, tell God you are struggling, ask how to handle it and how to survive and then listen. God will have answers and in the process, you will learn more about Him.
Nancy
