Many of us have had that sinking feeling returning from the lawyers office or leaving the banker’s desk. “What have I done?” rings in our head as we have just committed to a lifetime of mortgage payments.
This week we begin worship with a verse that comes from a chapter (Jeremiah 32) where Jeremiah receives the prophecy that because of Israel’s sin Jerusalem would fall to the Babylonians, but will eventually be restored. The prophecy contains the instruction that Jeremiah should buy a field, even while the siege is taking place, because God is faithful and it will once again be in the hands of Israel.
It is after that purchase, after recording that deed, that Jeremiah exclaims:
‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
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