DAY 220 Read Jeremiah 24; 29; 30.
Today's reading: The prophecy of the seventy years of captivity is repeated. But in the midst of doom and gloom, a beautiful promise shines out.
Memory gem: "Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13).
Thought for today:
In many ways we see that Isaiah 45:15 is true--God is a God that hides Himself. But, notwithstanding all obscurity, it is important for us to remember that God has amply revealed Himself. Though God hides Himself, there comes a voice from heaven, saying, "I have not spoken in secret" (Isaiah 45:19). All that we need to know, we can know if we believe His word. No obscurity hides His divine invitation for us to seek Him, and His revelation in the Bible is plainly His gracious seeking after us. He is no hidden God to those who sincerely desire to know His will.
We must be wholehearted if we expect to find God. It is the great purpose of divine revelation to make us know that God loves us and has given us His Son that in Him we may know God and possess His righteousness. What do we need more than that knowledge and that possession? "And this is life eternal," said our Saviour, "that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent (John 17:3). Whatever may be dark in the ways of God to men, this is clear: He has come to us in His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, for "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself" (2 Corinthians 5:19).
Many things which we should like to know are not written in the book of divine revelation, whether in the volume of nature, of human history, of our own hearts, or even the Bible. But those things that are for our salvation are written that we may believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and may have life in His name (see John 20:31).
When God seems hidden, we must have faith to remember that what we need to know, we can know; that many things which are dark now will be clear later; that our partial knowledge will be enlightened when we shall know even as we are known (see 1 Corinthians 13:12).
NOTE: As verse 1 of chapter 24 indicates, we have now come in our reading to the reign of Zedekiah, last king of Judah.
Today's reading: The prophecy of the seventy years of captivity is repeated. But in the midst of doom and gloom, a beautiful promise shines out.
Memory gem: "Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13).
Thought for today:
In many ways we see that Isaiah 45:15 is true--God is a God that hides Himself. But, notwithstanding all obscurity, it is important for us to remember that God has amply revealed Himself. Though God hides Himself, there comes a voice from heaven, saying, "I have not spoken in secret" (Isaiah 45:19). All that we need to know, we can know if we believe His word. No obscurity hides His divine invitation for us to seek Him, and His revelation in the Bible is plainly His gracious seeking after us. He is no hidden God to those who sincerely desire to know His will.
We must be wholehearted if we expect to find God. It is the great purpose of divine revelation to make us know that God loves us and has given us His Son that in Him we may know God and possess His righteousness. What do we need more than that knowledge and that possession? "And this is life eternal," said our Saviour, "that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent (John 17:3). Whatever may be dark in the ways of God to men, this is clear: He has come to us in His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, for "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself" (2 Corinthians 5:19).
Many things which we should like to know are not written in the book of divine revelation, whether in the volume of nature, of human history, of our own hearts, or even the Bible. But those things that are for our salvation are written that we may believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and may have life in His name (see John 20:31).
When God seems hidden, we must have faith to remember that what we need to know, we can know; that many things which are dark now will be clear later; that our partial knowledge will be enlightened when we shall know even as we are known (see 1 Corinthians 13:12).
NOTE: As verse 1 of chapter 24 indicates, we have now come in our reading to the reign of Zedekiah, last king of Judah.
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