Never a Good Time to Give Up! Part IV

Never a Good Time to Give Up!

Part IV

Chapter 29 of Jeremiah a light at the end of the tunnel; and that light is not a train. It’s God. It’s God with a promise of a great future; with the promise of prosperity; and with the promise that we will not be harmed. But there might be circumstances that will cause us to doubt that from time to time. Ever been there? I have. One friend of mine told me that I wouldn’t be the first person God would forget or that God would fail. And this was part of the message Jeremiah was trying to communicate with the exiles and now to us. We need to pay attention because if you haven’t noticed, times are tough and the chances of them getting tougher are pretty good.

So Jeremiah wrote this letter in a letter as a source of encouragement. He concluded the letter with the great promise found in verse 29 but he included five other things we need to pay attention to in his letter.

The first nugget is that God has not forgotten us. The second nugget is that it’s important to not stop doing what we are supposed to do. Because it’s never too late to do the right thing.

Now the third nugget in this letter is: tough times don’t last forever, there will be an end.

Just as God limited the exile of Judah to 70 years, our tough times have a God-established limit. It’s like God says to all the evil around us, “This far and no further.” Just as God put limits on Satan and his attack of Job, there are limits around you and me. God has not forgotten us; we need to keep on doing the right thing; and we need to keep in mind that this too has an end.

It’s Never a Good Time to Give Up!

Always in Pursuit!