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(Jer 30:15,
17).
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“Oh! Ephraim is my dear, dear son, my child in whom I take pleasure! Every time I mention his name, my heart bursts with longing for him! Everything in me cries out for him. Softly and tenderly I wait for him.” GOD’s Decree. (Jer 31:20) When the people were prosperous, they supposed that nothing
because they seem impractical, failing to conform to visible reality. But in fact they are the reality that is being constructed but is not yet visible.
Hope commits us to actions that connect with God’s promises.
act in hope because most of the immediate evidence is against it. As a result, we live in one of the most impractical societies the world has ever seen. If we are to live practically, we must frequently defy the impracticalities of our peers. It takes courage to act in hope. But it is the only practical action, for it is the only action that survives the decay of the moment and escapes the scrapheap of yesterday’s fashion.
The fact that they are there at all shows that judgment is in the service of salvation, the salvation of the nations as well as of Israel.
People of faith live in a far larger reality than people without faith. “God so loved the world.”
