Jeremiah 12:14-17 – God’s blessing is determined by one's relationship with Him

Here we see God calling foreign nations He would use to judge Judah His people as My wicked neighbors. We know from history that God used the Assyrians to deal with While God would use Babylon to judge His people in Judah. Here in Jeremiah 12:14-15, God promised that they would also punish them for the way they would treat Judah. Like Judah, those adversaries would also be uprooted from their homeland, just like Judah would be uprooted. However, they like Judah would also experience God’s compassion and each would return to their inheritance.   

However, In Jeremiah 12:16-17, God promised those nations if they would convert and give their allegiance to Him with the same kind of rigor they once had in serving Baal, He would build them up in the midst of His people.  If they would not take up the offer and harken to God, He would uproot them and destroy them too.

 From these four verses, we learn that the blessing of God is equally available to all who would give their lives to Him ad be committed to honoring only Him.  The blessings of God are not based on racial lines or one’s ethnicity. It is based on one’s faithful relationship with Him. God is no respecter of persons. Regardless of our race, if we give ourselves to know, honor, and serve Him, He will make us His and bless us abundantly.