Re:Verse passage – Jeremiah 29:10–14 (day three)
“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.”
When every conceivable calamity has crashed down all around, when waking up doesn’t end the nightmare, when nothing remains of all you called valuable, when people you have loved the most have become the source of your deepest heartache, when you have asked yourself how you got to this place of misery – hope itself seems like an exercise for fools only. Has God too lost track of you? It feels like it, and no word to the contrary from well-meaning folks will change what you feel all the way to your marrow. You need others to sit with you until your dying day if need be and quietly hope when you cannot do so for yourself.
A beautiful reminder that we are often called to be still and just listen. Thank you, sir.