Read: Jer. 7-9
Notice where God told Jeremiah to give his prophesy of judgment. It was not in the governmental building of the day but at the gate of the Lord’s house. It is not the heathen that God is speaking to but His people…the ones that should know better. He keeps telling them that if they would just turn and do what is right then God would allow them to stay and live in their land and it would go well with them. Their list of sins was pretty long. God’s house had become a den of robbers.
Jeremiah must have felt like his ministry was a failure because no one seemed to listen and change. The sad thing was that they claimed to be wise and have the law of the Lord to protect them. They just didn’t realize they had to read it and obey it. Jeremiah wept over God’s people and what he was seeing. He felt God’s heart for a lost people who had missed their time of visitation. When a nation is deceived and walks after the imagination of their own heart they fall into the same deception our nation is experiencing where political correctness trumps the Bible. It is not our church buildings that are going to turn God’s wrath away but our earnest cry of repentance and our desire to walk in God’s righteousness that will grant God’s favor. God warned them to let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor the mighty man glory in his might, nor the rich man glory in his riches. But let him glory in the fact that he understands and knows the Lord.
Lord, You are the Lord who exercises loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. We delight in You.
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