What is a promise without the hope of it coming true?
For the past few days, we searched scripture for the prophecy of Christ – the promise of His coming – into a broken world in desperate need of redemption. There’s absolutely no way I could believe in the promise of the first or second coming of Christ unless I had hope in God’s faithfulness. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.” The cornerstone of our faith is hope and hope, specifically in God.
In our reading today, we see that God promises that He will perform the good things He promised hundreds of years before this prophecy. It is important to note that God’s promises don’t expire. When God promises a person, a group of people, or Himself something, He will do it. Our hope, then, must be measured by God’s faithfulness and not our circumstances because like the Israelites who were in captivity in the book of Jeremiah was written, our immediate circumstances may be contrary to the promise, but God’s promises are still valid.
He always can and when He promises us something, He will!
‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah:
‘In those days and at that time
I will cause to grow up to David
A Branch of righteousness;
He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
In those days Judah will be saved,
And Jerusalem will dwell safely.
And this is the name by which she will be called:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’
“For thus says the Lord: ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;