A FUTURE AND A HOPE
IN APPARENTLY HOPELESS CIRCUMSTANCES, Jeremiah affirmed a future and a hope with God. This prophet had a pious premonition that God was up to something hopeful. That prophecy came in the midst of the everyday affairs. We have definite, historical, demonstration that Jeremiah’s hope was well-founded. Seventy years after his words of hope in the midst of hopelessness, the people came back to the city. The wall, temple, and homes were rebuilt.
Through this prophet, we learn how to express hope-tangibly and sacrificially, obviously and memorably. Our hope for the future is not based on a Pollyanna kind of optimism, but a realism that believes in the promises of God. God also positively confirms our future through the well-founded hope of the open tomb.
