Day 1529

Put your Hope in God!

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, May 24.

Where do you put your hope? As I wrote in my devotion on 2 Kings 25, the last chapters of Jeremiah and 2 Kings end with God giving the people a seed of hope through the preservation of the Davidic line.That’s an important conclusion because the last chapter of Jeremiah is depressing, describing the utter hopelessness of Israel’s situation as Jerusalem was sacked, the people exiled, and the temple destroyed. Everything and anything that the people could possibly put their hope in was gone. The prophet described the destruction in detail, starting in Jeremiah 52:12-15:

Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire. So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans.

The prophet made it clear that everything was gone except for their faith in God’s promises through the line of King David. The people in exile had one hope left and that would have to sustain them for seventy years. Would it be enough?

Seize the moment and put your hope in God! When God is all you have, God is all you need!

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