Jeremiah 21-23: It's Still His Story

“So then, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when people will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ but they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”  - Jer.23:7-8 NIV

We love to visit Israel, something I never thought I would say.  Once you set foot in that land that was promised to the descendants of Abraham, you experience something different, your perspective changes.   It becomes a historical perspective of promise.  You see something that God is doing for his people in the land he chose for them centuries ago.  You see the intertwining history of a people with their God and the land; people who have not forgotten their God and a God who has not forgotten the land or his people..  You see something that is alive, still living.  What is taking place in that land and among that people is real.  The relationship between God and his people is not dead, it is not finished.  You see the story as it is being told in this century.  You see God's hand at work; bringing his people out of all the countries where he had banished them.  It's still His land.  It's still His people.  It's still His story.

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