For the Lord gives wisdom, and from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Proverbs 2:6.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7.

The Lord watches over you – the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm – He will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. Psalm 121:5-8 NKJV.

I have reached a point in my life where I don’t know what will be. What seemed such solid footing before is no more. I can’t control. It isn’t up to me. That has happened before in differing ways, but I kept trudging on. But now, truly, I feel as though I have reached a precipice. All that was before is behind me. There is a saying a good friend told me: I can’t. God can. I think I’ll let Him.

The upheavals in this life, whether in the distant past of our chapter, Jeremiah 22, or in this life today, are because we live in a broken world and we break it. I’m thankful for the prophets of Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit. How would we know without God telling us? We act on what we “know” and look where that has left us. But Jeremiah was sent to the king of Judah to tell him this message from God…“This is what the Lord says: ‘Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne wil come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people. But if you do not obey these commands, declares the Lord, I swear by Myself that this place will become a ruin.’” v. 3-5. Did the king listen? Do we? “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor. He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace with spacious upper rooms.’ So he makes large windows in it, panels it with cedar and decorates it in red. “Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?” declares the Lord. “But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.” v. 13-17. And this, final word on that king? This is what the Lord says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.” v. 30. In our next chapter, we learn what God’s plan is. God does not leave us without hope. For the Lord gives wisdom, and from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Who could have imagined that the Word who spoke to the prophets of old, who spoke the world into existence, would come as a child and live among us showing us how to live fully trusting the Father? From His mouth come knowledge and understanding…could you create all that is? Could you take someone by the hand and walk with them and love them and guide them to a life of faith because they turn to you? I can’t. God can. Can we let Him?