Jeremiah 30-31

By Mike Durrill

[12] "For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. [13] There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you... 

Hopeless.

When a mechanic says there is nothing that can be done for your car, you go to another mechanic. When you are looking for answers from people and find none...you keep searching. When a doctor in town says your disease is not curable you certainly seek other opinions. Right?

However, when God says you are incurable...where do you turn? There are no other Gods. Sorrow. Grief. Hurt. Anguish. Pain. Desolation. Hopeless. These are words that describe people who cannot be cured from their sin disease. This was me. This was you.

[8] But God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8 ESV


[4] But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, [5] even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- [6] and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, [7] so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. [8] For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, [9] not a result of works, so that no one may boast. - Ephesians 2:4-9 ESV


In Jeremiah 30-31 we find a message of hope for the nation of Israel and for all those whose God is this God.

God is rich in mercy! Overflowing with forgiveness! Wondrous in His plan of redemption for mankind!

[17] For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!' - Jeremiah 30:12-13, 17 ESV