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“For thus says the Lord of hosts: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.” – Jeremiah 32:15
Friends,
At a desperate moment in the life of his nation, the prophet Jeremiah gets a strange message from God: ‘Buy a field in your hometown.’ This at a moment when the Kingdom of Judah is about to be overrun by the armies of the Babylonian Empire, and Jeremiah himself is under house arrest for saying things that are critical of his own government and rulers. A strange time to invest in real estate.
Still, this odd story stands out in Jeremiah’s otherwise fairly bleak life, because it is an act of hope. Hope that things, desperate and disheartening as they are, will not remain that way. Hope that the world can change.
At times like Jeremiah’s, and at moments like ours, hope is an act of resistance.
‘Hope’ to see you all on Sunday!
K