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Heart Truth Devotions, a daily devotional podcast with Pastor Ray Jones from Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Dothan, AL. Heart Truth is designed to help you start your day by receiving truth from God’s word for your heart.
Ridgecrest exists to reach the lost, build the believer, and connect the people of God to the mission and purpose of God. The Heart Truth podcast is just one way we seek to accomplish our mission online. Find out more about our church at www.rbcdothan.org.
“For no one is abandoned by the Lord forever.” Lamentations 3:31
We’ve been talking a lot about how to get to know God while you’re in seasons of waiting. In this passage, Jeremiah is proclaiming the truth that no matter how dark the circumstances might have seemed, eventually the waiting was going to come to an end. In the same way, you can take heart and know that God is working in your season. It’s easy to feel discouraged, but you can get to know God on a deeper level by fixing your eyes on the future that He’s promised for you. We call Hebrews 11 the Hall of Fame of Faith because it showcases how faithful servants of God have always looked beyond their immediate circumstances towards eternity. These men and women of faith understood that they were merely “strangers and exiles on the earth” and that they were seeking a greater homeland—one not bound by earthly limits but inspired by a heavenly hope. Waiting is never an eternal sentence. Jeremiah talks about this elsewhere, too. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord. ‘They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’” (Jeremiah 29:11). I think an often overlooked passage is the next verse over from this: “If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.” (Jeremiah 29:13). That’s a good way to sum up how you can get to know God while you wait. God is actively shaping you and your future while you wait. Will you trust in His promises and seek him with your whole heart?