August 23 / Every Day God: What Goes Around Comes Around!

Jeremiah 30:4-15Amplified Bible (AMP)

4 And these are the words the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:

5 Thus says the Lord: We have heard a voice of trembling and panic—of terror, and not peace.

6 Ask now and see whether a man can give birth to a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why are all faces turned pale?

7 Alas! for that day will be great, so that none will be like it; it will be the time of Jacob’s [unequaled] trouble, but he will be saved out of it.

8 For it will come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will break [the oppressor’s] yoke from your neck, and I will burst your bonds; and strangers will no more make slaves of [the people of Israel].

9 But they will serve the Lord their God and David’s [descendant] their King, Whom I will raise up for them.

10 Therefore fear not, O My servant Jacob, says the Lord, nor be dismayed or cast down, O Israel; for behold, I will save you out of a distant land [of exile] and your posterity from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease, and none will make him afraid or cause him to be terrorized and to tremble.

11 For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you; for I will make a full and complete end of all the nations to which I have scattered you, but I will not make a full and complete end of you. But I will correct you in measure and with judgment and will in no sense hold you guiltless or leave you unpunished.

12 For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable and your wound is grievous.

13 There is none to plead your cause; for [the pressing together of] your wound you have no healing [device], no binding plaster.

14 All your lovers (allies) have forgotten you; they neither seek, inquire of, or require you. For I have hurt you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a crueland merciless foe, because of the greatness of your perversity and guilt, because your sins are glaring and innumerable.

15 Why do you cry out because of your hurt [the natural result of your sins]? Your pain is deadly (incurable). Because of the greatness of your perversity and guilt, because your sins are glaring and innumerable, I have done these things to you.

Have you made some wrong choices? Have you been living your life against God instead of for God? Is your pain incurable? Are things really, really, really bad right now? As in they couldn't possibly get any worse? Just turn your pathetic self over to God. And watch Him turn everything around.

Jeremiah 30:22Amplified Bible (AMP)

22 Then you will be My people, and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 31:1-14Amplified Bible (AMP)

31 At that time, says the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.

2 Thus says the Lord: The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness [place of exile]—when Israel sought to find rest.

3 The Lord appeared from of old to me [Israel], saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn you and continued My faithfulness to you.

4 Again I will build you and you will be built, O Virgin Israel! You will again be adorned with your timbrels [small one-headed drums] and go forth in the dancing [chorus] of those who make merry.

5 Again you shall plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and make the fruit common and enjoy it [undisturbed].

6 For there shall be a day when the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry out, Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.

7 For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the head of the nations [on account of the chosen people, Israel]. Proclaim, praise, and say, The Lord has saved His people, the remnant of Israel!

8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and among them will be the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who labors in childbirth together; a great company, they will return here to Jerusalem.

9 They will come with weeping [in penitence and for joy], pouring out prayers [for the future]. I will lead them back; I will cause them to walk by streams of water and bring them in a straight way in which they will not stumble, for I am a Father to Israel, and Ephraim [Israel] is My firstborn.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, O you nations, and declare it in the isles and coastlands far away, and say, He Who scattered Israel will gather him and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.

11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from the hand of him who was too strong for him.

12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion and shall flow together and be radiant with joy over the goodness of the Lord—for the corn, for the juice [of the grape], for the oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd. And their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow or languish any more at all.

13 Then will the maidens rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old together. For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice after their sorrow.

14 I will satisfy fully the life of the priests with abundance [of offerings shared with them], and My people will be satisfied with My goodness, says the Lord.

God is the God of impossible turn arounds! It's all your fault, you say? No worries, He will take care of everything! When you totally give up, that's when He steps in! 

You will be singing and dancing for joy again, yes you will!!!

"Thanks, Jesus! Thanks for turning my sorrow into joy! Thanks for taking my giant mess and making something beautiful out of it! Now I am a living, breathing testimony of Your Power! You are awesome! You are amazing! You are my Healer! I praise Your name, Jesus, AMEN!"