Today, I am reading and commenting on  Jeremiah 13-15.

I have just returned from vacation and am attempting to get back into my normal routine.

During the time of Jeremiah the people of Judah had reached the point where God declared that He would no longer listen to prayers requesting Him to relieve the suffering of the people of Judah in general.  In many ways, Jeremiah’s prophecies are scary and depressing, because they seem to offer no hope.  Reading these prophecies leads me to wander if our society has reached a similar point.  However, scattered through these prophecies one finds little gems of hope. Jeremiah tells us that our focus should be on our own behavior, and on calling individuals to follow God’s commands, not on changing society.  God told Jeremiah, and us, to pay attention to the words He has spoken to us and not be arrogant.

Just as in Jeremiah’s time, our society is full of prophets telling the people lies in God’s name, things which God has never said.  They tell us things like, “If it feels good, it can’t be wrong.”  But that is not God’s message.  God calls us to repent, if we do He will restore us so that we can serve Him.  He calls us to utter worthy words, if we do He will make us His spokesperson.  Let us stand so that people can turn to us, and therefore to God, but we must not allow our desire to reach them cause us to turn to their ways.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.