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🌅MORNING– Beauty in the Ashes “This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations is not a cheerful book. It is five poems of grief written in the smoking aftermath of Jerusalem’s destruction.…

🌅MORNING – An Everlasting Love “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.” Jeremiah 31 is one of the warmest chapters in the Old Testament. God is not often called Father in the Old Testament, but God says plainly: “For I am a Father to Israel.” (31:9) Later…

🌅MORNING – A Letter to Exiles “For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not…

🌅MORNING— YHWH Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness 🌳 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch🌳; And He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely;…

🌅MORNING— A Broken Jar “Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired…” When Pashhur the…

🌅MORNING— Broken Cisterns “Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder, be very desolate,” declares the Lord. “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,To hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 2 is not gentle. It is not subtle. It is…

🌅MORNING— A Prophet of Tears “Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”” Jeremiah lived during the final decades of Judah before exile. Reform flickered under…

🌅MORNING— Higher Ways🌱 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed🌱 to the sower and bread to the eater; So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return…

🌅MORNING— The Lamb in Our Place “Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions,He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are…

🌅MORNING— High and Lifted Up🪵 “Behold, My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. Just as many were astonished at you, My people, so His appearance was marred more than any man and His form more than the sons of men. Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings will…