“I WILL BRING YOU BACK!”

 

Jeremiah 29:11-14.                (ESV)

“[11] For I know THE PLANS I have for you, declares the LORD, PLANS FOR WELFARE and not for evil, to give you a FUTURE and a HOPE. [12] THEN you will call upon ME and come and pray to ME, and I WILL HEAR YOU. [13] YOU WILL SEEK ME and FIND ME, WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART. [14] I WILL BE FOUND BY YOU, declares the LORD, and I WILL RESTORE your fortunes and gather you from ALL THE NATIONS and all the places where I HAVE DRIVEN YOU, declares the LORD, and “I WILL BRING YOU BACK” to the place from which I sent you into exile.”

There are times when I wake up and IMMEDIATELY open my cellular phone and begin looking at emails and social media in a supposed effort to keep “in-touch” with everything that is going on in today’s society.  I am NOT that important, so why do I need to find out what is transpiring in “my world”???  Could it be that “the enemy” is trying to cloud my mind with whatever he can that will prevent me from “getting a WORD from THE LORD”???

This morning I really tried to get “into” THE WORD, but my wife was getting ready for work and I was having trouble just BEING STILL and hearing from GOD!  Then I recalled Jeremiah 29:13 which says “YOU WILL SEEK ME and FIND ME, WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART”!!!  THERE are times when this Brain Damaged person has difficulty LETTING GO and hearing from THE CREATOR!  “The enemy” dangles a myriad of “things’ in front of me in an effort to “cloud my vision” and prevent me from ACCESSING THE THRONE OF GOD!!!  

So I opened the Scriptures to Jeremiah 29 and was led to write about verses 11-14.  When I was skimming over the Scriptures, I was “drawn to” the passage “I WILL BRING YOU BACK”!  If was as if GOD was telling me that “I WILL BRING YOU BACK” to a place where HE WOULD BE GLORIFIED!  I have been “matured” by HIM to the point where notoriety has faded away and JESUS BEING GLORIFIED is more important to me!

King David wrote in Psalm 37:25 “I have been young, and now am old, yet I have NOT SEEN the righteous forsaken or HIS children begging for bread.”  I have SEEN some pretty desolate times, and I have experienced some GLORIOUS experiences!  But to UNDERSTAND that THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES says that “I WILL (DEFINITELY) BRING YOU BACK” is a PROMISE that I will thoroughly enjoy accepting!!!