Day 315: Tools

Galatians 3:1-20; Jeremiah 51-52; Psalm 144

We are no longer under the burden of the law, the Old Testament. Jesus came to be the curse that we would experience if he hadn't taken our place. It is through Jesus that we have God's spirit, we are no longer just us, but God's children.

What is interesting about Babylon is that it was a tool used by God for justice. They were not God's chosen, and in fact, worshiped idols, but God used them to bring judgment on the people of Israel. Now, in these chapters in Jeremiah, he is warning them of their own destruction. God uses people and things to carry out his work on earth. I pray that we are not used as tools of judgment and destruction, but of help and healing.

I love how David cries out to God and names what God is to him: Lord, mighty rock, teacher, friend, fortress, shield. God can be all these things for us, we just have to be willing to let him in our lives and take over.