Jeremiah 32 - In the midst of allowing destruction and chaos, God asked Jeremiah, now jailed for telling the truth, to buy a piece of land. I liken it to Peter being told beforehand that he is going to preach to Gentiles. Peter would never have done it unless God had not spoken to him beforehand. This is what happens in the case of Jeremiah in chapter 32.
So God tells Jeremiah that a man is going to visit him offering him land. Because God tells him beforehand he feels God is asking him to buy it. So Jeremiah takes a deed and gives good money with all the proper witnesses, while still in jail. We are given all the legal details. I guess the author wants us to see even with destruction looming business is still being carried out in normal ways.
Thus Jeremiah is saying and modelling that God will restore his people. In the midst of a terrible judgment that is about to happen, God still sees beyond to recovery. God says, "Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land."
After the election I see a terrible judgment about to happen to this country. No I am not a prophet. I am just looking at the signs. As a country we have chosen selfishness over responsibility. We have chosen sexual license, fiscal license, abortion out of convenience and pronounced it all good in the public square.
I hope I am wrong. A lot of terribly smart people are on board with voting for a socialist president. How blind can smart people be? Are they ignoring the obvious? They don't want to see?
Yet God will be merciful to us too, as he was to the people of Israel in the time of Jeremiah. But not, I fear, before a judgment. I worry about my family, how they will survive. Yet God says pray for daily bread. He promises to give us our daily bread. I believe it. I pray for faith not to worry. I do not want to give up, to retire from life.
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