Jeremiah 25 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO

Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste. Jeremiah 25:12 – The fact that judgement was coming upon Judah’s sins is no surprise to us this far into reading this book. Repeatedly the prophet made clear that God was going to use the Babylonians as His instrument to bring His wrath on His disobedient people. Judah would be overtaken, cast into exile, and remain in captivity for decades. Yet how could God use such a sinful nation like Babylon, even calling the nation “my servant?” Was the Lord so focused on Judah’s sin that He forgot to look at the sin of the nation He was using to bring forth His wrath? As the Apostle Paul would say, by no means. Our verse above shows us God clearly saw the sins of Babylon, and all the other sinful nations, and they too were going to experience God’s wrath on their sin. Notice though the difference between the wrath on Judah and the wrath on Babylon. 70 years was Judah’s punishment, but Babylon was to be an everlasting waste. It can be difficult to trust the Lord sometimes when we see the wicked people and nations of the world prospering yet the faithful suffering. Let the story of Jeremiah remind you that God is just, He is though working on a far grander scale than our minds can understand. Moves God makes may seem completely wrong to us in the moment, like calling a cruel nation as Babylon “His servant,” but He has everything planned out where the righteous are provided blessing and the wicked are provided judgement on their sin. As Isaiah reminds us, God’s ways are greater than our ways and God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Settle to trust the Lord even when the moves He is making don’t make sense in the moment. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3255

Question To Ponder: How have you seen God use today’s version of “Babylon” to fulfill His purposes?

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