Wed.’s Devo - The Lord is our Inheritance

Read: Lamentations 3:1-66; Hebrews 1:1-14; Psalm 102:1-28; Proverbs 26:21-22 Jeremiah describes his anguish. He feels pinned in by the Lord with no way of receiving grace or mercy. He was not only attacked by an outside enemy, but by his own people. He has lost all his peace and prosperity. He is suffering and homeless. *** Then he remembers the Lord’s great faithfulness. His mercies are new every morning and He is Jeremiah’s inheritance, so he does have something to put his hope in. Salvation comes to those who patiently wait for it. *** God never abandons his people forever. He punishes them when they sin. They reap the consequences of sin when they are treated the same way by people who are also sinners and don’t obey God’s laws. Sin corrupts the land in every way and everyone is affected by it. Jeremiah cries out to God to forgive them and to hear their cries for mercy. Jeremiah is in despair over all the destruction and pain he sees around him. *** He recalls when his enemies put him in the cistern to die. He cried out to the Lord, and He heard him and delivered him out of the cistern. Jeremiah asks God to punish them for what they did to him. He wants God’s curse to fall on them. *** No one knows who wrote Hebrews. He begins by telling how God used to speak in the Old Testament through the prophets but now he speaks through his son, Jesus. Everything the prophets spoke about was manifested in Christ. The Son is the very expression of the character of God. Jesus came and cleansed us of our sins, then sat down at the right hand of the Father in heaven, showing us that He is far greater than the angels. God never called an angel his Son. When he brought him into the world he had all the angels worship him. *** Jesus came proclaiming that God is a good God who hates evil and loves justice. God proclaimed that Jesus was with him in the creation of everything. This world will perish and be changed, but the Lord will remain the same. God told Jesus to sit at his right hand until he humbles his enemies and puts them under his feet. Angels are spirits that are sent out to minister to the saints, those who will inherit salvation. *** In our Psalm, David is reiterating what Jeremiah was feeling about his enemies. He comes to the same conclusion that God never changes and he does reward both the evil for their sins and the righteous for their good deeds. *** Lord, thank you that you never change. Thank you that your mercies are new every morning and we can rest in your faithfulness. All our hope is in you. We have a great future because You are our inheritance.