March 4. God rejoices to do you good. I will make with them an everlasting covenant

that I will not turn away from doing good to them. I will rejoice in doing them good. Jeremiah 32, 40

through 41. This is one of those promises of God that I come back to again and again when I get

discouraged. Can you think of any fact more encouraging than that God rejoices to do you good?

Not just does you good, not just is committed to doing you good,

glorious as that is, but that he rejoices to do you good. I will rejoice in doing them good.

He doesn't begrudgingly fulfill the promise of Romans 828 to work everything together for our good.

It is his joy to do you good.

And not just sometimes, always, I will not turn away from doing good to them.

There are no lapses in his commitment or in his joy in doing good to his children, to those who trust him.

That should make us so glad.

But sometimes it is hard to be glad. Our situation is so hard to bear that we just can't

muster any joy. When that happens to me, I try to imitate Abraham. In hope, he believed against hope, Romans 418.

In other words, you look your hopeless situation in the face and say,

you are not as strong as God.

He can do the impossible.

And I know he loves to do it for those who trust him.

So hopelessness, you will not have the last say. and I know he loves to do it for those who trust him.

So hopelessness, you will not have the last say.

I trust God.

God has always been faithful to guard that little spark of faith for me and eventually, not always right away, fan it into

a flame of happiness and full confidence. And Jeremiah 3241 is a great part of that joy.

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