In the New Covenant, the LORD promised a new reality that is substantially different from that found in the Old Covenant, ensuring a sure salvation for all in it.
Even as the LORD executed His judgements on His rebellious people, He displayed His mercy by consoling them with a profound promise.
Due to their sin, the people’s condition was incurable, and their reaction to the LORD’s correction was incorrigible, but His grace is incomprehensible.
The LORD used the exile as a means of instruction: teaching His people how to trust Him, exhorting them to submit to His purposes, and encouraging them to wait on…
Apart from grace, our hearts are in an incurable condition; and apart from Christ, we would face a terrifying conclusion.
When we trust in the Lord and make Him our trust, we will experience the fruit of His blessing and will be made useful for personal worship and practical ministry.
Doubt and idolatry lead us away from the Lord into a desert of the soul, but the Lord uses the results of this curse to drive us back to Himself…
Profound judgment came upon Judah, but an even more profound display of power and mercy has come in the extension of God’s redemption to the ends of the earth.
God’s judgment will rightly fall upon those who disregard His warnings and continue in disbelief, but He has made a way for all who will trust in Him.