FIGS At long last! Jeremiah is hopeful!

FIGS
At long last! Jeremiah is hopeful!

JEREMIAH 24

He is hopeful after judgment has come.
But where does his hope lie?
It is not with those who have survived the exile and have remained in the land. Though the human mind may look at these and think they are the ones where the future looks better than the ones who have been taken away. They still have their king and they still have their temple to worship. They still have their lives and their freedom.
These people think they are better than the others who are now in exile. They have false security based on a fake righteousness.
God calls them the bad figs!
Where is God?
He is with those who have no hope.
He is with those who have no earthly trappings of success, they have no future.
He is with those who are robbed and who have become the outcast.
He is with those who cannot control their lives.
He is with those who need a miracle every day.
He is with the vulnerable, with those who have nothing left to give.
He is with those who having no hope, have hope because He gives it to them.
God calls these the good figs!
Let’s go where He is.