by Dr. Paul Chappell
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.”
Jeremiah 29:11–14
Jeremiah lived in a time of great turmoil. Enemy armies had come to his homeland and looted the temple in Jerusalem dedicated to the worship of Jehovah. The people had turned against the Lord time and again, worshiping false gods and enjoying the sin that they knew God hated. Yet despite the bitter harvest of consequences they were reaping, God had not forgotten them. It is easy for us to look around and think that there is no hope—that things will only get worse.
But with God nothing is impossible. The powers of this world are a significant nothingness before His might. The needs of this world are no challenge to His unlimited resources. The evil in this world may be great, but it will not prevail against Him. In fact, though the final victory has not yet been given to us, it has already been won for us by Jesus Christ, and nothing the devil can do will change that. The best tool Satan can use against us is to cause us to doubt God. When we are in difficulty, it is more important than ever that we look to Him and trust His promises.
Today’s Growth Principle:
God is faithful in every situation and circumstance of life, and you can safely trust your future to His care.
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“And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Luke 1:76-79
I was never really a morning person. That is, until I moved to Florida. And one thing that started getting me up in the morning was that beautiful sunrise over the ocean. Now when dawn breaks, the sun doesn’t suddenly appear in the center of the sky. No, it peaks through the darkness, smiles on the morning, and creates countless beautiful colors before the day begins.
And that’s just the way God came, like the dawning of the day, as a gentle baby. God smiled upon this earth and the light of the world began to shine. It wasn’t necessarily an explosion. Oh, yes, the heavens exploded with the glory of God when those angels sang. But primarily it was in a humble place that Christ was born and that day, the sun began to rise.
You may have seen some of those old horror movies where the monster is coming toward the helpless victim but you see just a shadow. The shadow would grow bigger and bigger, and then came the substance of that shadow... the monster itself!
Do you know what the substance of the shadow of death is? Eternal death. In this death, there’s no light, no love, no hope, and no heaven. And so many people spend their lives sitting in the shadow of death.
But the truth is that the morning has broken and Jesus has come!
What a wonderful salvation we have in the Light of the World, Jesus Christ! Life is no longer dark and depressing. Life in Christ has direction and is full of his light!
CHRIST HAS COME AND THE MORNING HAS BROKEN. SO WALK IN HIS LIGHT! |
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