Have you experienced a back and forth of good and bad? Did you wonder when the seesaw would end? Were you wishing there was something you could do to stabilize yourself? Did you consider God was in control? Did you look forward to God turning it all to your good?
The Israelites had been through the good and the bad. They had promised to follow God’s commands and had. But they also disobeyed and faced God’s punishment. God had seen it all and withstood it all. God also has seen the entire future and knew what he planned.
The prophet Jeremiah received God’s prophecy for the future. God told Jeremiah he was going to restore Israel. He stated they would once again be prosperous. They were going to be watched over by God. He was going to build them up again. He was going to plant and reap what he planted with Israel. There is no doubt God was looking forward to the time he would send his Son to save the world.
We sometimes forget that God is looking at not just today or tomorrow but years, hundreds of years, and thousands of years into the future. His plan is laid out before him. He moves the pieces he needs to move to accomplish it. We don’t see all the pieces. We don’t know all the moves. All we can do is trust God will execute his plan and it will work for the good.
I pray we all see how God has worked in the past for the good of his people. I pray we know we cannot see all that God is doing. I pray each one of us trust God is always at work to execute his plan. See how God has worked. Trust God is always working. Trust in God’s plan.
Jeremiah 31:27-28 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.
Marty Pressey 