He won't leave them either!

This morning I was reading out of Jeremiah (I'm still slowly working my way through that book!) and found a passage that I LOVED!

"This is what the LORD says, "he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and the stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that the waves roar - the LORD Almighty is his name: Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," declares the LORD, "will the decscendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me." This is what the LORD says: "Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done," declares the LORD." --Jeremiah 31:35-37

After reading that I couldn't help but feel all warm and fuzzy inside. At this point, Israel hasn't been following the Lord and have been rejecting Him essentially. But, God doesn't give up on them. This is pre-Jesus, before all of our sins have been paid for, and yet God still isn't forgetting about Israel, and still loves them enough to call them His people. Our God won't give up or leave us either, even after all the not-so-great and downright ugly things that we do.

This is one of the messages that we will be carrying when we go to Honduras. They too have a God who loves them, and who cares about each one of those precious little children. Those children have been through rough times, but the God who loved Israel in the Old Testament loves them too! He won't leave them either, just like He will never give up on us! What an awesome message that we get to carry and spread when we are serving Our Great God in Honduras!!