1. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  2. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  3. Lord, remember us to remind us, that we may know all good things come from you.
  4. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  5. This week, we’ll take a closer look at what it means to have a God who remembers us. Today, 1517 Scholar in Residence Chad Bird first introduces the Old Testament meaning behind the word and the Hebrew way of remembering.
  6. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  7. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.
  8. We may not all be mass-murdering Nazis. But we all have the same root sin that causes the most egregious criminal activity on the face of the earth. We all have the desire to be our own God.
  9. God’s published will offers us anchorage, the anchorage of Jesus Christ, in the midst of chaos, reminding us that there is a greater purpose to our lives than the pursuit of worldly success or fleeting pleasures.
  10. This is an excerpt from part two of “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  11. The Bible not only calls us to remember God’s past acts of deliverance; it also invites us to recognize that God in Christ is still in the business of delivering sinners from bondage.
  12. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.