RESTORE
Today's reading: Jeremiah 27-29

"I will be found by you, says the Lord. I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and bring you home again to your own land." Jeremiah 29:14 NLT

Restore-give back, return; to put or bring back into existence or use; to renew; to put again in possession of something.

God was speaking to the exiles who had been placed in captivity in Babylon for what would be a seventy year 'time out'.

He promised them that when they chose to return to Him, He would return to them. And return to them in a way they would not or could not fathom.

He told them He would also restore everything they had lost.

But not only lost.

Everything they had given away to idols.

Everything they had traded for sins.

Everything they had forfeited in order to be part of the crowd.

Everything they had allowed to slip through their fingers.

Everything they had previously owned but had never fully appreciated.

What a promise!

And it's one we can bank on, too.

Those things you gave away while you walked in sin--if they are truly intended to be yours, then He will restore them!

Those godly ways you disregarded as old-fashioned, grandfatherly or archaic, He will make new and valuable to you.

Those personal things you'd sold off to the highest bidder at the lowest point in your life, He is there to renew, remake and reward back to you.

When we turn back to Him.