So Judah
went into captivity away from the land. (Jeremiah 52:27)Jeremiah chapter 52 details the fall and destruction of Jerusalem. What took years to build, the fire and the battering ram took just days to destroy. King Zedekiah had been blinded, his children executed in front of him. The temple priests and gatekeepers were killed. So Judah went into captivity away from the land. It was done… Or was it?
More than 600
years earlier Moses had declared: When
you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your
heart and with all your soul . . . then the Lord your God will restore your
fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations
where he scattered you (Deuteronomy 30:2,3).
Once again we
see a glimmer of hope beyond the present fog of despair. The truth is that no
matter how lost we might be, no matter how far off track we may have wandered,
there is always a way home.
“In those days, at that time,”
declares the Lord, “the people of Israel and the people of Judah together will
go in tears to seek the Lord their God. They will ask the way to Zion and turn
their faces toward it.” (Jeremiah
50:4,5)
The blessing
of exile is that it makes us long for home.
Is it time for you to
leave your exile and turn your face toward home?
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