Show me your ways - Jeremiah 32-36

Judah was in the very worst of times.  The Babylonian armies were at the city walls.  The city was in the midst of falling to its enemies.  Despair, discouragement, and destruction had fallen upon the city and its people like the darkness of night.  Yet, in the midst of it all, God calls out to the people of Jerusalem and says, Call unto me, and I will answer . . .   

If you read through the prophets and history of Israel at the time of Jeremiah’s prophecy you quickly discover that it was the nation’s sinfulness, idolatry, and lack of repentance that brought the correcting hand of God’s justice upon them.  They deserved and needed what God was bringing upon them.  While they may have felt innocent and undeserving, they had earned God’s judgment. 

There are times where we find ourselves in the darkness of despair.  Perhaps we have earned the corrections God has brought into our lives.  Or perhaps, we are being refined through a trial that seems undeserving, but is in God’s grand design.  In the midst of that record breaking hurricane that holds every prospect of our destruction, we find ourselves sitting in a row boat, wishing we had a much bigger bucket. 

While the people of Jerusalem deserved their lot, notice the grace of God in the midst of His divine judgment.  God continued to provide an invitation accompanied by a definite promise.  God said through Jeremiah,  “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”  In other words God said, in the midst of your hopelessness if you will call unto me then I will answer in supernatural ways.