Song # 2084 from Our Gospel In Song Collection by Col Johnston. The Lord showed Jeremiah two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the Lord (Jeremiah 24:1). One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very poor figs, so bad that they could not be eaten (Jeremiah 24:2).Then the Lord asked Jeremiah “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “Figs” Jeremiah answered. “The good ones are very good, but the poor ones are so bad that they cannot be eaten” (Jeremiah 24:3). Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 24:4). “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Babylonians’” (Jeremiah 24:5). “My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them” (Jeremiah 24:6). “I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart” (Jeremiah 24:7). “But like the poor figs which are so bad that they cannot be eaten” says the Lord. “so I will deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem. Whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt” (Jeremiah 24:8). “I will make them abhorrent and an offence to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, an object of ridicule and cursing, wherever I banish them” (Jeremiah 24:9). “I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave to them and their fathers” (Jeremiah 24:10).
Thought for today: when God forgives, He restores the soul.
Thought for the future: for eternal life, it’s not what you know but who you know. Where will you spend your eternity?