Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Great and Mighty Things

Jeremiah 33:3 KJV
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
This is a wonderful promise in God's Word and one that I believe every Christian can claim. I did, however, find myself interested in its first application to Jeremiah personally.

Jeremiah finds himself, in this chapter, in a prison cell. All he has done is preach God's Word faithfully, but the price has been heavy. God begins His promise to Jeremiah with a statement concerning Himself:
Jeremiah 33:2 KJV
Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
The "it" of the passage is anything God wills.
God has made the prison Jeremiah found himself in.
God had permitted Jeremiah to be imprisoned.
God can do as He pleases and always does what He does for His own glory and for our own good.

Now for the promise; God told Jeremiah if he would ask that God would show him great and mighty things. And those things are then shown him in the following verses.

First there is a revelation of judgment
vs 4-5

Secondly there is a revelation of peacevs 6

Thirdly there is a revelation of restoration
vs 7

Fourthly there is a revelation of pardonvs 8

Fifthly there is a revelation of joy and praise and honourvs 9

There are no greater things than those that God does to bring sinners to a place of peace, pardon and praise before God.

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