As I read the last chapter of Jeremiah, I was reminded of the unrighteous judge in Luke 18. Jesus said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge said; now will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night and will He delay long over them? I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"
And Jeremiah 52:31-34: "...Evil-merodach, king of Babylon (and that was his name not necessarily his temperament though he was a pagan king), in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin, king of Judah and brought him out of prison. (Jehoiachin was not a good king and had been taken into captivity early in his reign.) [Now here's the good part...] Then he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon. So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and had his meals in the king's presence regularly all the days of his life. For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death." I could not help thinking of us as we come to Christ: we change our prison clothes and we are in the presence of the KING of KINGS regularly all the days of our lives forever!
And Evil-merodach was an unjust king who showed this kindness. How much more will God, our Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ be there for us. He has told us the same thing. God, as Jesus said in Luke, will not delay long over us. He will bring about justice quickly. Do we have faith to believe this and live like it?
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