A Year with God

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A Year with God by R.P. Nettelhorst

Make this the year you let God's Word "dwell in you richly"---and marvel at the results! Each entry in this 365-day devotional features Scripture verses in which God speaks, accompanied by insights and applications to enhance your understanding. Learn what God says about hope and fear; perseverance and quitting; companionship and isolation; and more! 384 pages, softcover from Nelson, Copyright 2010.

You Cannot Change the Laws of Physics

The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
"Thus says the LORD, 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.' "
And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
"Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them'? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

"Thus says the LORD, 'If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established, then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.'" - Jeremiah 33:19—26 NASB

The creation is the mirror of the creator. The moral laws and the laws of nature are reflections of who and what God is. God links the permanence of the covenant with his people with the laws of the universe. The word translated as patterns is the word usually rendered statute or ordinance. That is, the laws. Breaking them is just as foolish as trying to count the sand or the stars.

God reassured his people that just as surely as the sun rose and set, and just as surely as the patterns of nature went about their courses, so God's promises to his people and their king were secure. Just because the people of Judah were being punished didn't mean God didn't love them anymore. And just because they were going into exile didn't mean God had rejected them. They would continue to be his people whether they remained in their land or not. God was not limited like the so-called gods who had power only within their own lands. God's domain was complete and absolute. God's laws are as unchangeable as the laws of physics, and just as the laws of physics cannot be broken, neither can God's love for his people be broken.