(January 27, 2015)
As I read
through this chapter it was impossible for me to ignore a singular truth – the
Lord clearly loves the children of Israel (He even explicitly reiterates that
love), and yet He will left those very people to whom He was speaking in
captivity for the remainder of their lifetime. They never returned to the
Promised Land, although some of their children or grandchildren eventually were
able to return home.
In my
life, I see myself expecting that righteous living will generate peace and
happiness and all the trappings of the “good life.” But the Lord promises us no
such thing. In fact, it is often His love for us that is the very source of the
challenges and adversities that we struggle against and that we believe
preclude us from achieving the “good life” that we're looking for. Like
everything else, it comes down to faith. Do we trust the Lord enough to build
our homes in Babylon
knowing that we may very well never see the Promised Land during mortality and
instead live our lives in captivity?
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