In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37.

(God) made us alive together with Christ…that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6-7 NKJV.

“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor My covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54:10.

In reading Scripture, read with the understanding of the love of Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit. On the scales – His love for our good…the pride and arrogance of this broken world for our harm. The next two long chapters are about Babylon. In the notes below our chapter, Jeremiah 50, this helps: “50:1ff At the height of its power, the Babylonian empire seemed invincible. But when Babylon had finished serving God’s purpose of punishing Judah for her sins, it would be punished and crushed for its own. Babylon was destroyed in 539 B.C. by the Medo-Persians (Daniel 5:30,31). Babylon is also used in Scripture as a symbol of all evil. This message can thus apply to the end times when God wipes out all evil, once and for all.”

This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians: “Announce and proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it; keep nothing back, but say, ‘Babylon will be captured; Bel will be put to shame, Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.’ A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will live in it; both people and animals will flee away…Because you rejoice and are glad, you who pillage My inheritance, because you frolic like a heifer threshing grain and neigh like stallions, your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who gave you birth will be disgraced…Since this is the vengeance of the Lord, take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done to others…I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the Lord…See, I am against you, you arrogant one,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty, “for your day has come, the time for you to be punished. The arrogant one will stumble and fall and no one will help her up; I will kindle a fire in her towns that will consume all who are around her…At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will tremble; its cry will resound among the nations.” v. 1-3, 11-12, 15, 24, 31-32, 46. Babylon is idolatry. And God’s heart? “In those days, at that time,” declares the Lord, “the people of Israel and the people of Judah together will go in tears to seek the Lord their God. They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten. My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place. Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture, the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’…But I will bring Israel back to their own pasture, and they will graze on Carmel and Bashan; their appetite will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead. In those days, at that time,” declares the Lord, “search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare.” v. 4-7, 19-20.

How can we understand the heart of God living in a broken world? For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. John 3:16-17. They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it…They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten…Search will be made for (the world’s) guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of (the world), but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare. Only Creator God’s love will save us from the way of Babylon we are still entrenched within. Jesus taught us to have love for one another because He so loves us, His children, He gave His life that was bound in humanity, that we could be with Him forever. The way of Babylon was nailed to the Cross. And to truly love one another, to take up our cross with Him, our first love must be for Creator God. He will show us the way and it is so good! We can’t see that fully now but our Creator God can and He will bring it to pass as surely as the nation Babylon was ended so long ago. Our God knows. He knows you and me and every single heart. Trust Him. Let your heart be open to Him and all He has for you.