The land has been left unworked. God is calling us to break it up.
God is always providing for His children. Satan exhausts himself poisoning what God has provided. What can we learn from this passage about how to protect what God has given us?
We all have our own Midianites to face. By studying Gideon's strategy we can learn how we too can defeat the Midianites.
This verse deals with building and battling (“keep the city”). These two actions describe much of our life and they certainly describe the Christian life.
As believers, we have an amazing inheritance. In this story the Lord commands Jeremiah to buy a field from his uncle in his hometown of Anathoth. Jeremiah is unlikely to get any benefit from the field, but he is to buy it anyway. God uses this event to promise future restoration of Israel. Fields will again be bought and sold in the land. This is a message of hope and promise in a time of destruction.
