Eleventh Day of the Challenge

Reading:
Jeremiah chapter 31-33
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What it meant to me:
God repeats again that He shall be the God of the people of Israel, and that they shall be His people. Trough our faith we are children of Abraham and parttaking in this promise.
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From far away the Lord let them see Him, with eternal love He loved us and let His mercy towards us last. This is a declaration of love, from the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.
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He makes a promise to lead them on their way home (lead us to Him), from far away, the hurt, blind and suffering, when they come crying and humble prayer. He will lead them, to brooks of water and roads without holes and stones, so they won’t stumble. When we come humbly and crying to Him, He will receive us. What a promise, what a God!
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God spread the people of Israel, but then He leads them back together again; He hurts to be able to heal, and spread to be able to recollect.
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The people of Israel will shout with their mouths and their faces will shine with joy because of the Lord’s good gifts to them. This made me think, because how often does my face shine with joy or do I shout with joy because of the Lord’s good gifts, even if I’m showered with them every day?
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God promises to make their sorrow to joy and comfort and give joy to they who mourned. Reminds me of how mighty God is and how, whatever sorrrow we experience, even things that in every aspect is impossible to heal, He is able to.
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The Lord promises the crying that the captives will come back and that there is hope for the future, bacause He is able to bring the children back. This reminds me that there is hope for my loved ones who are captives of this world and who can’t see how the way they live their lives lead them away from God, not closer.
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God says again to the people of Israel, to mark the road back to Him, remember it and come home. How long they will turn their head to look for a substitution for Him? Reminds how so many of us look for love in all the wrong places. We look and search and long for anything but God, to fill a gap that only God can fill.
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A new aspect of God’s characther: Compassion. He lets the exhausted drink till their satisfied, and He feeds all in need.
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Then there is a prophesy of times when each one shall be responsible for his own sin. New times when all will know the Lord and He will forgive their sins and never remember it again. If the sun and the moon and the stars will cease to light the Earth, then Israel shall ceaseto be His people, if the heavens can be meazured and the depths of the Earth be explored, then He will not be Israel’s God forever. What a promise..
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There is a prophesy of the new Jerusalem that shall never be broken, it must be the next Jerusalem that haven’t been built yet.
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God says that He is the Lord, the God of all ccreation and that nothing is impossible for Him. Will I trust that? I hope so.

Peace to you,
åslaug