Tuesday
Read Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15
The Lord
spoke to me in the tenth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, which was also
the eighteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. 2At that
time the army of the king of Babylonia was attacking Jerusalem, and I was
locked up in the courtyard of the royal palace. 3King Zedekiah had
imprisoned me there and had accused me of announcing that the Lord had said, “I am going to let the
king of Babylonia capture this city,
6 The Lord told me 7that Hanamel, my uncle Shallum’s
son, would come to me with the request to buy his field at Anathoth in the
territory of Benjamin, because I was his nearest relative and had the right to
buy it for myself. 8Then, just as the Lord had said, Hanamel came to me there in the courtyard and
asked me to buy the field. So I knew that the Lord
had really spoken to me. 9I bought the field from Hanamel and
weighed out the money to him; the price came to seventeen pieces of silver. 10I
signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the money on
scales. 11Then I took both copies of the deed of purchase—the sealed
copy containing the contract and its conditions, and the open copy- 12and
gave them to Baruch, the son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. I gave them to
him in the presence of Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed of
purchase and of the people who were sitting in the courtyard. 13Before
them all I said to Baruch, 14“The Lord
Almighty, the God of Israel, has ordered you to take these deeds, both the
sealed deed of purchase and the open copy, and to place them in a clay jar, so
that they may be preserved for years to come. 15The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, has
said that houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
Think
Jeremiah is imprisoned for prophesying against the king. His prophesy will come true. Within the reality of a very negative
situation... The Kingdom about to fall -
Jeremiah still buys property.
Anticipating God's rescue of his people.
Pray
Lord help me to have Jeremiah's insight.
To see the reality of present difficulties. And to know your plans for the future.
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