Read: Jeremiah 14-17
The sins of Judah were so horrible that God told Jeremiah that he wasn’t to get married or have children in Jerusalem. It was because if he did they would die gruesome deaths and no one would be there to mourn or bury them. He later says in Jeremiah 17:13 that those who depart from Him will have their name written in the earth. I wonder if that is what Jesus wrote in the earth the day he saved the woman caught in adultery. If he wrote their names, which he would have not natural way of knowing them, those students of the law would have known this scripture and the fear of the Lord would have fallen on them. They would have known that something supernatural was happening and leave. That is just my thoughts.
Jeremiah does give us some encouraging words in 17:7-8. He says that the man who trusts the Lord will be like a tree planted by the water. He will not fear when the persecution comes because he will prosper in it. And he will not be anxious when the water fails because he will not cease to produce fruit. I believe this is true both naturally and spiritually.
He warns them not to carry a burden on the sabbath day. To us spiritually that means that during our lives we are not to carry the burden that Jesus has already born for us. We should live in complete freedom and rest. God talks about this sabbath rest in Hebrews. We are all invited to walk in God’s 7th day rest.
Lord, in light of what is going on around us, we pray for our nation and that we would repent as a nation and turn to You. As Christians, we pray that we find rest in You.
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