Jeremiah 33:1-3
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying, "Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name; Call unto me, and I will show you great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
I noticed that God spoke to Jeremiah or beckoned him when he was "Shut up" in the court of the prison. It was probably dark and lonely. No doubt Jeremiah felt discouraged and possibly depressed because of the dreariness of the prison. Maybe he felt a bit of hopelessness.
Yet...in the midst of being "shut up" in the prison God, the maker of Heaven and Earth beckons Jeremiah and the people of Israel to call upon the one who can turn our mourning into dancing; the one who is our refuge; the one who is able to do the impossible: great and mighty things that are beyond our imagination; the one who can pick us up out of our pit of despair, out of our depression, out of our discouragement, out of our loneliness and the one who can give us hope for a future despite our current circumstances.
That is amazing. God is still calling us, his children, to call out to him from whatever situation or prison we find ourselves in; to call out to our source of hope, strength, love and peace.
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