Reflecting this morning on restoration after my reading in Jeremiah 32-33. Thinking how we can be so certain nothing is left and all is desolation and every dream or hope is dead. And nothing makes a corpse of hope like us having killed it ourselves. The agony of consequences.
Then right there, staring at the barren field, our bare feet on parched dirt, silver clouds of a sunless sky hanging shame heavy on our heads, yoke-like, death-like, the word of the Lord we once knew takes flight from the sacred page and the Wind reminds us in whispers inaudible,
“I am the Lord, the God over every creature. Is anything too difficult for me?” Over and over in Scripture, God says “I will again...” I want to remind you this morning that yours, if you are in Christ Jesus, is a God of Agains. “Why,” we ask, “would he bother with us again?”
Because he loves us everlastingly & is committed to us in Christ & he DESIRES to. He who has been good to you will be good to you AGAIN. He who has moved mountains for you will move mountains yet AGAIN. He who once brought fruit from your efforts will make you fruitful AGAIN.
If you will bring your sorrow, regret, your repentance, lament, your disappointment, your shame, your sense of nothingness and blame and find hidden deep within you that one last fleck of faith—that weightless seed—and offer it on open palm, O Loved of God, the Lord will plant it
And water it and, in just a little while, you will see something green sprout from that fallow ground.
Because that’s the kind of God he is. He will, for our own good and instruction, let us reap what we have sown. Then he will just as surely let us reap what Christ has sown.
Because that’s the kind of God he is. He will, for our own good and instruction, let us reap what we have sown. Then he will just as surely let us reap what Christ has sown.
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