True satisfaction and fulfillment can only be found in the Lord, by seeking Him first and by finding delight in Him above all.
The LORD’s just judgment of Zedekiah and idolatrous Judah vindicated Jeremiah as a true prophet, and Jehoiachin’s restoration prefigured the LORD’s merciful kindness granted to us in Christ.
Paragraph 5 We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them…
The LORD is near to His people and will surely save them no matter their circumstances, and He will bring them safely home by keeping them under His loving discipline.
— Paragraph 2 These good works, done in obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith;3 and by them believers manifest their thankfulness,4 strengthen their…
— Paragraph 1 Good works are only such as God has commanded in his Holy Word,1 and not such as without the warrant thereof are devised by men out of blind…
The LORD is gracious and kind to His servants even when they need His correction and consolation.
Chapter 15 Paragraph 3 This saving repentance is an evangelical grace,4 whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith…
Our deepest desires determine and empower our idols, and they will rule over us if we do not turn away from them.