Jeremiah 32-33: A Righteous Branch

They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline. - Jer 32:33 NIV

“This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name: Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ Jer. 33:2-3 NIV

“‘The days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will fulfill the gracious promise I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
 “‘In those days and at that time
   I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line;
   he will do what is just and right in the land.  - Jer. 33:14-15 NIV

“This is what the LORD says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time, then my covenant with David my servant—and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering before me—can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.- Jer. 33:20-21 NIV

Mankind has not changed and neither has God.  God knows exactly how we are...how we turn our backs to him instead of our faces.  But God is steadfast when we are not.  He keeps his covenants when we do not and the covenant he made with his people is as unbreakable as his covenant with the day and night.  He had to keep his covenant, so he had to make a way for a recalcitrant people.  There was only one way to fulfill that gracious promise he had made to the house of Israel, another had to come.  A righteous Branch that would make a way, not only for the house of Judah, but with all of his creation.  The way is there, has always been there.   For anyone who will call, he will answer.

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