Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

Our reading was written by Karen Pimbo, and she titled it Future Faithfulness.

Sarah lost her mother when she was just 14 years old.

She and her siblings lost their house soon after and became homeless.

Years later, Sarah wanted to provide her future children with an inheritance that could be

passed down from generation to generation. She worked hard to purchase a house, giving her family

the stable home she never had. Investing in a home for

future generations is an act of faith toward a future you don't yet see. God told the prophet

Jeremiah to purchase land just before the violent siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. To the prophet, God's instructions

didn't make a lot of sense. Soon, all their property and belongings would be confiscated.

But God gave Jeremiah this promise in Jeremiah 32, as I have brought all this great calamity

on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.

The Prophet's investment in property was a physical sign of God's faithfulness to someday restore the Israelites to their homeland.

Even in the midst of a terrible attack, God promised his people that peace would come

again. Homes and property would be bought and sold again. Today, we can put our trust in God's

faithfulness and choose to invest in faith. Although we may not see an earthly restoration of every situation,

we have the assurance that He'll someday make everything right.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Jeremiah chapter 32, verses 37 through 44.

I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath.

I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.

They will be my people and I will be their God. I will give them singleness of heart

and action so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their

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