Be Faithful to Him and He will Be Faithful to You

Jeremiah Chapter 11
Vs. 4 & 5 "...Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey; the land you posses today [promised land]."
Vs. 7 & 8 "From the time I brought your forefathers up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, 'Obey me.' But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep."
(Yesterday's in correspondence with this verse from today) Chapter 10: 24 "Correct me, Lord, but only with justice; not in your anger lest you reduce me to nothing." Chapter 11:20 "But, O Lord Almighty, you who judge righteously and test the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you I have committed my cause."
What exactly is our promised land? Ultimately to be at a place of peace and to be being used for God's Glory (ministry in some way); to be the husband and wife to each other that we are to be and to be the parents to our children that we are to be. We have areas of calling on our lives. Today, I believe, we are standing together as a family at the edge of our promised land; the place that God has for us where we will have peace and be able to minister. Where we can heal and grow and flourish. We just have to keep walking and obeying God. Again, God is telling us to follow Him in all we do and to let go and let Him have His way over us and our situations. So often we plot and scheme of all the things we "wish" we could do to get even with those that hurt us. We "want" (I put it in quotes because it is my flesh not my heart that truly feels this way) for God to smack them and crush them because we are angry but we most certainly do not want God to take His wrath out on us when we do wrong. We have to remember that God is merciful and just. He gives them the same grace that He gives to us but when the time for vengeance comes, He does it justly and never out of anger. (A good example of how we should discipline our children; never out of anger but out of teaching and in a just and fitting way.)