READING:
One-year plan: Jeremiah 33-35, Philemon
Two-year plan: 2 Kings 15, John 11:17-27
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It’s a verse I first learned when I started memorizing scripture. It was one of several verses in a “scripture memory pack” I bought at a local Christian bookstore—meaning that I memorized the verse without fully understanding it way back then. What I do remember catching my attention, though, were these words: “‘Call to Me and I will answer you” (Jer 33:3).
What I did not know were the mystery and majesty of those words. The One speaking was the eternal One, the Creator of all that has been made. He is not some distant, unreachable God; rather, He is a God who desires that human beings have a relationship with Him. Jeremiah could call to Him, and God would show him “great and mighty things” (Jer 33:3) about the future.
God’s people in Jeremiah’s day and you and I today can call to God in prayer. As one writer put it, “Those that expect to receive comforts from God must continue instant in prayer. We must call upon him, and then he will answer us.”* God not only invites us to call on Him, but He also hears and responds. That’s amazing and comforting at the same time.
PERSONAL REFLECTION: How is your prayer life today?
DAILY PRAYER: “Father, teach me to pray and trust You with the answer.”
MONDAY’S READINGS:
One-year plan: Jeremiah 36-39, Hebrews 1:1-3:6
Two-year plan: 2 Kings 16:1-17:23, John 11:28-44
*Matthew Henry (1994). Matthew Henry’s commentary on the whole Bible: complete and unabridged in one volume (p. 1295). Hendrickson.