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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Jeremiah 31:1-14
Few portions of the Old Testament express the love of God in a more moving way than these vv. 1-14. Here is an unconditional love, expressed towards those who had nothing lovable about them, its greatness shown by our distance! "The Lord hath appeared to me from afar" (v. 3 JND trans.). Let us consider the road taken by the Son of God to reach us. The love of the eternal God is an everlasting love. It is His very nature (1 John 4:8; 1 John 4:16). And every believer has been made personally the object of this love from eternity.
To the touching cry of Jeremiah 3:4 : "My father, thou art the guide of my youth", the LORD can now reply: "I am a father to Israel" (v. 9). He will respond to the tears of His people whom He had formerly ransomed "from the hand of him that was stronger than he" (v. 11) and He will gather them together as a shepherd would his flock.
These verses remind each of us of a blessed truth. God does not only love us when He showers us with visible blessings (as He will do for His people on the earth according to the magnificent declarations of vv. 7-14). In our darkest moments, even when we, by our own failing, have lost the joy of communion with Him, He never stops thinking of us.
