hope-filled future.

So things were bad for God's people.

They had blown it.

Again.

And now they had been carted off by a conquering nation

to a place they didn't want to go.

Things looked bad. 

Really bad.

But then God, 

in the midst of speaking to His people 

through Jeremiah,

after listing all the things that they had done,

~all the times they chose less than Him~

speaks hope into their desolation.

Into their wilderness,

God speaks of 

home.

Even though they'd done what they'd done

time and again,

God brings redemption into the picture. 

Did they deserve a hope-filled future?

Maybe not.

But He was bringing one anyway.

That's how love works. 

That's how God works.

Maybe the journey you're in the middle of 

wasn't the result of you blowing it.

Maybe it was something done to you,

something that you didn't ask for. 

And now you're 

here.

Stuck in feelings that you'd like to change 

with all your heart.

God has hope on the horizon for you.

Perhaps the mess you're in 

is of your own doing.

We human beings are so good at making messes, aren't we?

You feel that a happy ending is the last thing you deserve.

Well, thankfully, God feels differently.

God's people had to wait. 

Their hope-filled future was years down the road

but just knowing it was coming

~that it was promised~

had to make all the difference in the world.

So…you?

Today?

Please know that God is working

even when you're tempted to think He's not.

And know that,

in the midst of your moment,

He speaks of a future filled with hope.

Seek Him with all you've got today,

and keep your eyes on the horizon.

On Him.

Many blessings,

Deni

{the photo is of one of the gates in New Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom}