The Bible in a Year “Hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened.” — Jeremiah 26:5 Jeremiah was given an uncomfortable assignment. God sent him to preach not to people who had abandoned worship altogether, but toContinue reading “When Hearing God Is Not Enough”
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When Those Who Speak for God Stop Listening to Him
The Bible in a Year “I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing; they commit adultery, and walk in lies; they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness.” — Jeremiah 23:14 Jeremiah 23 is uncomfortable reading, especially for anyone who teaches, preaches, leads, or speaksContinue reading “When Those Who Speak for God Stop Listening to Him”
When You Try to Quit but the Word Won’t Let You
The Bible in a Year “Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.” — Jeremiah 20:9 There are momentsContinue reading “When You Try to Quit but the Word Won’t Let You”
When Judgment Pauses at the Door
The Bible in a Year “If that nation, against whom I have pronounced judgment, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.” — Jeremiah 18:8 Jeremiah 18 gives us one of those passages that helps us understand both the seriousness of sin and the tenderness ofContinue reading “When Judgment Pauses at the Door”
When the Word Becomes Part of You
The Bible in a Year “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart; for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.” — Jeremiah 15:16 Jeremiah gives us one of the most vivid pictures in Scripture of whatContinue reading “When the Word Becomes Part of You”
THE GOD WHO IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS
The Bible in a Year “But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king; at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.” — Jeremiah 10:10 Jeremiah was speaking into a world crowded with gods. Every surrounding nation hadContinue reading “THE GOD WHO IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS”
When the Season Passes and Nothing Has Changed
The Bible in a Year “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” — Jeremiah 8:20 There is something haunting about that sentence. Jeremiah is not describing a minor disappointment. He is looking at a people who have watched one opportunity after another pass by while still assuming that somehowContinue reading “When the Season Passes and Nothing Has Changed”
When God Plows the Heart
The Bible in a Year “Thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.” — Jeremiah 4:3 If you have ever watched a farmer prepare a field that has been sitting untouched for a while, you know that planting does not begin withContinue reading “When God Plows the Heart”
Why Drink from a Broken Cistern?
The Bible in a Year “My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” — Jeremiah 2:13 Jeremiah gives us an image his original audience understood immediately. In the dry climate of ancient Judah, a flowing springContinue reading “Why Drink from a Broken Cistern?”
When Our Best Is Not Enough
The Bible in a Year “We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” —Isaiah 64:6 Most of us do not mind going to a doctor as long as the doctorContinue reading “When Our Best Is Not Enough”