Not Expected From Him

Jeremiah lived and did his work during the final days of Judah. The end of the nation was at hand. God instructed Jeremiah to condemn the sins of the nation and tell the people that their doom and destruction was inevitable seeing how they refused to repent. The book of Jeremiah is mostly gloom and doom, damnation to the wicked, justice to the evildoer.

Yet, Jeremiah has many words of hope, restoration, and the eventual fulfillment of God's promises of the Savior that was to come. Amidst so many words of warning and death it is surprising how much he writes about hope for the future.

He lived to see Judah collapse. He did not see the Savior. His coming was still several hundred years away. But Jeremiah's words of hope, actually the Word of God, although they seem out-of-place, tell us that bad days may be for a while, but redemption belongs to the faithful.