Monday Reflection – September 07, 2020 Our Amazing God!

Monday Reflection – September 07, 2020
Our Amazing God!

Great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open to all the ways of mortals, rewarding all according to their ways and according to the fruit of their doings. Jeremiah 32:19

Whenever I read Jeremiah 32, I can’t help but marvel over again at the mysteriously awesomeness of God. Isn’t it amazing what God tells us to do in the midst of life’s challenges. Jeremiah learnt this firsthand for after the Babylonian army besieged Jerusalem, he was thrown in prison. King Zedekiah didn’t like that Jeremiah told people that the Babylonians would succeed in conquering the city that Zedekiah and others tried so hard to defend. Zedekiah also could not deal with Jeremiah’s assertion that he would also be captured. It was this message of defeat that landed Jeremiah behind bars.

In the midst of this reality, God told Jeremiah that his cousin Hanamel would visit him in prison and ask him to buy a field in their hometown of Anathoth on the basis of the right of redemption – that the land was to remain in the family, and must therefore be offered to Jeremiah before anyone else. Note that Jeremiah was to purchase this land that was already under Babylonian control, thus utterly worthless. Though it didn’t make sense, Jeremiah did as the Lord instructed for he was convinced that it was the word of the Lord. When God’s instruction is followed by the open door, we need not hesitate.

With Baruch being told to preserve and hide the title deed and details of the transaction so that they could be read later and God’s declaration that houses, fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land, this was God’s promise, and the purpose for an otherwise foolish property purchase. The property purchase from prison is an expression of confident trust in God’s promise that the land would be possessed again. God would restore his people.

Jeremiah doesn’t understand it all so he prays to God. Today’s Watchword is part of this prayer. Jeremiah recognizes and praises the great power of God, confessing the truth that there is nothing too hard for God to do. He declares, ‘Great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open to all the ways of mortals, rewarding all according to their ways and according to the fruit of their doings.’ Jeremiah affirms the greatness and might of God, as well as his infinite knowledge, his justice and judgment.

Such is our Jehovah God! This God is faithful and true and does wonders in our lives. He is with us along life’s treacherous journey and promises to take us safely to a victorious end. Paul reminds us through his challenge to Timothy (1 Timothy 4:10) “We have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all people, especially of those who believe.”

Jermaine Gibson