Treasure In Clay Jar

God's good plan- Endure and Return For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 Jeremiah 29:11 is a popular and often searched verse in Google. Many a times we contemplate this verse out of its context. We use it as a quick fix for all our problems. We claim this verse and desire the immediate rescue from all our sufferings.  But when we understand this verse in its context, it has much deeper and spiritual applications in our life.  One of the crosswalk article I recently read addresses our misunderstanding of this verse. It states that - the heart of the verse is “not that we would escape our lot, but that we would learn to thrive” in the midst of it. Here’s the context: God's people were in exile, a punishment from God as a result of their disobedience. The prophet Jeremiah confronts the false prophet, Hananiah, who had boldly proclaimed that God was going to free God's

  Rest in God's mercy  To rest means to relax into something and let it support you. You rest yourself on the couch or bed after a whole day of hustle and bustle. It's a moment of stillness and calm, releasing all your stress and recovering the strength for tommorow. These days wherever you turn you hear only about natural disasters,calamities and pandemics, which fills our heart with so much distress, uncertainty and fear. We fear what tomorrow will bring. We fear for our dear ones and their safety. We fear for ourselves. In the midst of all of this where could our weary heart find it's rest? All natural disasters — whether floods, famines, locusts, tsunamis, or diseases are a thunderclap of divine mercy in the midst of judgment, calling all people everywhere to repent and realign their lives, by grace, with the infinite worth of the glory of God .When words cannot explain the circumstances that can overwhelm us it is good to just stop and to get lost in the wonder of God

When God says No - Look back, Look ahead  I am so amazed that age old stories still talk to us today. They still are very much applicable and practical in our present era. The characters during that time faced the same circumstances through which we go through today. It was one such incident that caught my attention in king David's life in 1 Chronicles 17 .  Now it came to pass, when David was dwelling in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tent curtains.” I Chronicles 17:1 In his most luxurious home made of cedar, king David seated in his glorious throne,is not thinking how to increase his riches, but is thinking to build a house for God. His desire is for the Lord. In his most prosperous time he didn't forget his Lord and His work. From a human perspective it is such a good plan to build a house for God, to think of Lord sincerely in his heart and so Natha