Three Acts You Can Count on God to Perform

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What’s taken your faith?

What have you believed for and it didn’t happen?

Do you really think God has cast you adrift just because a prayer didn’t get answered in a certain way at a certain time?

God’s not like that. He doesn’t abandon those he loves.

Lamentations 3:31-33 gives us his eternal assurance he will act in our best interests:

“For the Lord will not cast off forever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.”

Lamentations was traditionally written by the prophet Jeremiah, likely in response to the havoc inflicted on Israel and the destruction of the Temple. It addresses the humiliation and despair of the people after the Babylonians ravaged Jerusalem in 587 BC.

Israel had it about as bad as it could get, and yet, we read the redeeming promise of God in three acts he assures us he will perform.

Act No. 1:

“For the Lord will not cast off forever.”

You may be suffering, but God has not abandoned you. He will show up if you call on him.

Act No. 2:

“Though he cause grief, he will have compassion.”

Bad things happen to the best people. God will be there in your time of sadness.

Act No. 3:

“He does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.”

God does not single you out for disaster. He wants to guide you out of your despair.

We can’t afford to make God our scapegoat. He’s not in every hailstone that batters our roof or every virus that causes us illness. He wants us to draw unto him where his good things can flow unto us.

Our help from God is proportional to our faith in him.

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