Carla

Open my eyes Lord. Open the eyes of my heart…I want to see You!

Sin has consequences. In Jesus our sins are covered for salvation but there are consequences that result from sin that we recognize but do not repent. He remains the same… yesterday, today and tomorrow. 

Only by Gods’ mercy and grace are we not destroyed.

Following his purchase, Jeremiah offers a prayer affirming his faith in Yahweh but expressing his doubts over the purchase due to the city’s imminent fall to the Babylonians. The prayer follows the pattern of other biblical prayers from after the exile. It opens with praise, which is followed by a historical summary highlighting Yahweh’s power to save and Israel’s choice to rebel, culminating in their present circumstance under Babylonian siege. Faithlife Bible.

The Lord’s mercy and devotion to His people was demonstrated in His extending lovingkindness, or loyal love, to thousands. The Lord’s faithful love far outweighs His punishing judgment, but the seriousness of sin is not to be overlooked. 

Each man and woman will be judged individually on the basis of his or her own actions.

The nation responded to God’s grace with disobedience and breaking of the covenant, resulting in the calamity of the Babylonian siege and the eventual destruction of Jerusalem. What Jeremiah had prophesied in the name of God, the attack of the Babylonian foe from the north and the ensuing sword, famine, and pestilence was now being fulfilled.

Jeremiah 32:16–23 (NKJV)

¹⁶ “Now when I had delivered the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying: ¹⁷ ‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You. ¹⁸ You show lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them—the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts. ¹⁹ You are great in counsel and mighty in work, for your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings. ²⁰ You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, to this day, and in Israel and among other men; and You have made Yourself a name, as it is this day. ²¹ You have brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror; ²² You have given them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give them—“a land flowing with milk and honey.” ²³ And they came in and took possession of it, but they have not obeyed Your voice or walked in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have caused all this calamity to come upon them.

Isaiah 65:6 (NKJV)

⁶ “Behold, it is written before Me:

I will not keep silence, but will repay—

Even repay into their bosom—