“The people...found grace in the wilderness” (Jer.31:2a) There is no place grace cannot and will not go. When wickedness is great in the earth, when corruption is all around us, when violence fills our land, grace can still be found. Ask Noah!
We are strangers in a strange land, but we’re never strangers to grace. It follows us wherever we go and wherever we are. It is always nearby. We are never so lost or forgotten that grace cannot find us. When Elijah was discouraged and so depressed he wanted to die, He, Who is full of grace, showed up in the wilderness of his experience to sustain him by providing “a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head” as he slept.
And what was God’s purpose in His people finding grace in the wilderness? “I went to cause him to rest” (v.2b). And so it still is; we also can find grace in a weary land.
Grace is always at hand; just reach out and take what you need!
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