Hope for Your Future

Sustaining Hope
The Days Are Surely Coming
Restoration

Jeremiah 31:15-17  The Message

^15-17 Again, God’s Message:

“Listen to this! Laments coming out of Ramah,
    wild and bitter weeping.
It’s Rachel weeping for her children,
    Rachel refusing all solace.
Her children are gone,
    gone—long gone into exile.”
But God says, “Stop your incessant weeping,
    hold back your tears.
Collect wages from your grief work.” God’s Decree.
    “They’ll be coming back home!
There’s hope for your children.” God’s Decree.

 
For Reflection

We all yearn for what we have lost.  Many long for the "good old days."  Many long for the joy of childhood. Many long for lost companions.  Many long for the days of peace and justice they romanticize in memory.

But, God promises a return to the joy and hope not lost, just forgotten.  In our sorrow over present times we must not suffer in extreme nor must we mourn to the grave.  In God there is hope.  Even if current troubles are not resolved in our life times, God will bring forgiveness, justice and peace just as God always has.

 

Pray

for the courage to live hopeful lives in spite of sorrowful times.  Pray for those that hopelessly mourn that which they never had.  Pray for those who long for a future devoid of sorrow.  Pray for the peace which comes only from the promise of God.