July 28, 2022
Jeremiah 29:11 – I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord. They are plans for peace and not disaster, plans to give you a future filled with hope.
Good Morning Yahweh. Thank you. It’s funny. The words that you’ve given me over the past months so far have not been famous scriptures. Yet this is the third time this week, a “famous” scripture was given to me as a reminder. I know why most love this scripture, but I have always read in context and knew what the Israelites had to go through at the time that you gave them this word. And I’ve always been afraid of going through something like that.Â
But even when you plan hardship for us, it’s always meant for a good. It’s always meant to bring about change. It’s always meant to draw us closer to you. Because it’s the scripture after that I always cherished.Â
Jeremiah 29:12 – Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
You will hear us. You will no longer be angry with us. You bring us back to you. But it also requires us humbling ourselves under the foreign authority for that seventy year period. Thank you Yahweh for not just looking at our todays, but our eternities. Thank you for hearing us and for your overwhelming love for us. You are so beautiful in your compassion.Â
Compassion (Dictionary): Sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.Â
The word compassion just jumped out at me after I wrote it. Compound word: from Com + Pati (Latin).
Com: with, togetherÂ
Pati: to suffer (passion)
Your compassion: you suffer with us and desire to relieve our suffering.Â
Lamentations 3:21-22 – “The reason I can still find hope is that I keep this one thing in mind: the Lord’s mercy. We were not completely wiped out. His compassion is never limited.
Lol. Well you done know that this is one of the “famous” scriptures that I actually love. Your compassion is never limited. You don’t experience part of our suffering and decide that you can’t mek it. We may do that, but you never do. You walk through with us – the entire way and renews us every morning. Thank you for your grace and mercy to us. To me.
Yahweh, I pray for your young people. That as they come together in your name that they will earnestly seek your face. That they would grow in you and know your heart’s desire for them. They are at the age where many walk away. But you know the plans you have for them. To save them and to give them a future. I pray that whatever happens, they will choose to live for you. To trust you and to call on your name. Not just to call on you, but to wait on your answer. Thank you for loving them. For holding them. Thank you for fighting and winning the way for them. Thank you for showing me that I need to let go. Still fight: but understand why I’m fighting and the outcome of what I am to do. Thank you for your strength. I love you.
Racham: Compassion: Deeply, mercies, womb (as cherishing the fetus), tender love.
Great is Your Mercy – Donnie McClurkin.