Awaking to a New Vision
By Bill Vigue
“Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD,… (Jer 31:26-27)
In the same way David woke up to a new hope following one of the most stressful evenings of his life, here we see the “weeping Prophet” Jeremiah wake up to a new vision and consciousness of a good outcome.
The Prophet Jeremiah lived one of the saddest lives of any man of God. His mission from Birth was revealed to him by the Spirit. A Prophet of Israel, few realize that God said he was placed over all the nations to “root out, pull down, destroy and throw down” so the Lord could rebuild and replant all the nations in righteousness.
God’s mind set is “first the Jew and then the Gentile”. (Rom 2:9-10) Jeremiah’s revelation was for Israel, but it was given to them so they might understand that God loved all people not just the Israelites. The Apostle Paul greatly suffered trying to get that truth across.
Jeremiah had few friends. He was forbidden to marry. (Jer 16:1-16) He had internal conflicts within himself. (Jer 20:7-18) The kings and rulers hated his messages from the Lord. They wanted him to prophecy what they wanted to hear, and instead he told them what the Lord said. That frustrated even Kings to anger. Often Jeremiah was slapped around. (i.e. Jer 20:2, Jer 37:15) Possibly he was beaten so often it relates to the reference to his “incurable wounds” (Jer 15:18) along with “perpetual suffering”. He was repeatedly imprisoned, (Jer 20:1-6), accused of defection (Jer 37:1-16) and his motives were misunderstood. (Jer 37:12-14) Yet, he held together to finish the mission God gave him.
Jeremiah said, “I awaked, and beheld”. The word “beheld” implies Jeremiah saw something in the Spirit as he awoke. It was a vision of something that turned his mourning into gladness. His focus changed from his miseries into a sweet sleep. What God did was give him a vision of the future, the coming of a New Covenant.
“Behold, the days come,… that I will make a new covenant…Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; (The Mosaic Covenant) which covenant THEY BRAKE,…
To introduce the coming of a New Testament God emphasized that Israel, not Him, had “broken” their original Covenant. It enhanced the sweetness Jeremiah felt when knowing that regardless of Israel’s violations of the Law, God had not cut them off completely. Knowing that nothing can separate God’s love from His people was a comfort to Jeremiah and meant to be a comfort to those who believed his prophecy.
But this shall be the covenant…I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” (Jer 31:31-34)
G. Campbell Morgan was called “The Prince of Bible Expositors”. He wrote this commentary on Jeremiah’s prophecy about this New Covenant promise.
“The declaration is that there shall come within, written upon the heart; when the Law of God shall be communicated to the individual directly, clearly, and constantly; so that it shall be ever new, so that every hour there shall be no need to look back to the thing spoken yesterday, because of the consciousness within the life of the divine thought and will and purpose in that particular moment… It is well to remember that the written commandments – and I refer resolutely to the commandments contained in the Holy Scripture, whether in the old or the New Testaments now – the written commandment is always incomplete, and constantly obscure… When I speak of obscurity I mean the difficulty of the application of the commandment to every new phase of life… how it met certain individual needs who should tell?… The simple means that the written word, even the NT, is obscure. Life is complex, so varied, so perpetually changing its manifestation and its need, that enough has not been written to cover all the necessities of the case(s)”.
When I first read this commentary I thought the writer was speaking against the Bible. He was not! I’ve read enough of his teachings to know how highly he esteemed the scriptures. He understood how important they are to us. Without them we can discern the many evil spirits that speak contrary to the Lord our God. Morgan was an advocate that we must looking earnestly and rightly divided the scriptures.
But Morgan conveys here a depth of understanding that many Christians do not yet embrace. He speaks of the vastness of man and God. Both are so complex that full comprehension by mortal man is impossible. Morgan speaks of the depths of God. (Rom 8:33-39) We can not fully grasp how God loves us. But our (the Born Again believers) inward man experiences perpetual relief by the inward Spirit of the living God and it is known to us by a peace that passes all understanding.
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