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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Jeremiah 33:1-18
Once again the LORD speaks to His servant in prison. He has more precious revelations to make to him and urges Jeremiah to pray in order to obtain them (v. 3; Amos 3:7). God is always prepared to instruct us in great and hidden things which we do not know. But He invites us first of all to ask Him for them.
Jeremiah is going to hear about the subject which he holds dearest to his heart: the restoration of his people after the disaster which is to befall them. In certain areas where the soil is poor there are villages which have been totally abandoned as a result of people moving away from the countryside. There are few more dismal sights. How much worse then must the desolation of a city like Jerusalem have been, laid waste and burned after the exile of her inhabitants (v. 10; see Nehemiah 2:13-14). However, God’s promises are explicit: joy and life will once again fill the city. She will be given a new name: "The LORD our righteousness" (v. 16); it reminds us that nobody will ever enter the heavenly city by virtue of his own righteousness. Everything there will be based exclusively on the righteousness of Christ. And the two families by which the relationships of the people with God were maintained, that of the kings and that of the priests, will once again be represented (vv. 17, 18).
