By the rivers of Babylon – Psalm 137
God’s people found themselves in a very precarious situation. Faced with captivity they mourned when they remembered what they had and what they had forsaken through disobedience to God’s Word. Even though their situation was bad they did not take heed to the positive prophecy through Jeremiah that their captivity was only going to last 70 years. At the end of that period they would have the opportunity to return to their homeland. At anytime in our lives we may face circumstances that cause us to feel alone, isolated or under attack. If that happens, God’s people are to remember the great and precious promises He has made to them through Christ Jesus. God has promised an eternal release from our captivity, which is from our mortality, into an everlasting existence in his glorious presence.