Sunday Sermonettes #071
This is a tremendous promise of God: “‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.'” This promise was given in a situation that looked negative, disastrous, and impossible for anything good to happen.
The promise came to Prophet Jeremiah while he was in prison for preaching God’s message faithfully. He spoke of coming judgement and the king locked him up. Truth is never popular; isn’t it? Foreign armies were surrounding the city, their battering rams pounding on the walls, and at any moment they were expected to destroy their city and place of worship.
One thing the Bible constantly affirms is that God’s Word is not chained. It is living and active. And it can work in your life change and positive transformation. No negative circumstance can crush the life-giving power of God’s Word. And even in the face of judgement about to happen, God’s Word came to Jeremiah in the prison and talked about hope.
The fact that Jeremiah was in prison and the city was bout to be taken did not prevent God’s promise from being fulfilled in the years to come. And therefore this promise shines like a star radiating hope in a dark night.
In such a circumstance, God was telling the prophet to call to him. Maybe you are going through tough times in life. The invitation from God is still the same: “Call to me.” What simple words; and what a great possibility. God is asking you to directly talk to him.
The great assurance is that, God says, “I will answer you.” When God has said so, he will certainly answer you. The problem with most of us is that we expect God to act in a particular way. But ?God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform,” as Poet William Cowper has written.
God also promises to reveal unsearchable things. In this particular case the promise meant God’s plan to restore the people taken into captivity back to their land. The destruction would come. But God would still bring back his people and rebuild the city once again.
Yes, God is able to restore and rebuild your life from ruins. When his time comes to act, what he does for you will be of far greater magnificence than you can imagine now. What he reveals to you are hidden from view at the moment; but they will come to pass in God’s chosen time. For as the Apostle Paul later affirmed, God “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”
When you trust God, he will unravel the plans he has for you step by step. Most people are disappointed with God, because they want the entire blue print of their life at once. God invests in today. He doesn’t accept your deposits of future worries. Therefore the only security you have is that God knows what he has planned for your future.
And God will fulfill them for you. But you need to call out to him. And believe that he will fulfill his promises in spite of all the negative circumstances you find yourself in. As God himself earlier asked Jeremiah, “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”
Therefore look beyond your present despair. For the promised restoration was painted in brilliant colours: “There will be heard once more the sounds of joy and gladness,” in the streets now deserted. What great hope as desolation and despair gives way to sounds of people’s thanksgiving. There will certainly be a restoration of fortunes. For God will keep his promise and fulfil it.
Bible quotes: Jeremiah 33:3, Ephesians 3:20 and Jeremiah 32:27. Word of God references: 2 Timothy 2:9 (not chained) Hebrews 4:12 (living and active). Jeremiah 29:11 (I know the plans I have for you to give you hope and a future).
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