Daily Devotionals

Devotional: September 4th

" Call unto me and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not." - Jeremiah 33:3.

Great and mighty things had been shown unto Jeremiah. Great discoveries of the glory of God had been permitted him. He had walked with God on most intimate terms. He had experience of the power of God to render him as a brazen column in the midst of hostile Jerusalem, and to sustain him in his most trying ministry. God also had shown him the great and mighty things of his wrath that he intended to bring to pass upon Judea, and upon the nations round about. Yet Jeremiah was not to rest satisfied. His business was to obtain the utmost measure of divine communication. He was now in the court of the prison. He is told to pray for great things. Another would have thought first of his own deliverance. But the great and mighty things which it pleased the Lord to be stow and Jeremiah to receive, related to the deliverance of the people of God from their future captivity, and the restoration of God’s goodness to them.

We may learn from this, not to rest satisfied with any communications of God’s grace that, we have received, but to cherish a spirit of expectation and desire. The best evidence that we value what we have received, is when it has en-kindled our aspirations for what is yet beyond. For you observe that God requires to be asked for the great and mighty things of his grace, before he bestows them. And if the path of duty take you to the court of the prison, you may, like Jeremiah, find communications such as were not made in the temple even.

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