Today, I am reading and commenting on Jeremiah 10-12.

Today’s passage begins with Jeremiah comparing idols to a scarecrow in a cucumber field (I find that image interesting, in America today we tend to imagine scarecrows in corn fields or pumpkin patches).  What Jeremiah says here bears a close resemblance to what the prophet Isaiah said. Isaiah said that those who worship such gods are blind and ignorant.  Here Jeremiah says that those who put their trust in something other than God are foolish and senseless.  While Jeremiah speaks specifically about idols, images which people have made in order to worship them, his prophecy applies to any man-made thing which people worship.  It may be an object, an idea, or an organization.  So, let us examine our lives and thoughts to see if we are allowing our thoughts to be formed by something or someone other than God.  Let us compare everything we hear to what God teaches us.  If the thought or idea does not come from God, let us reject it.  Let us seek God’s discipline before He becomes angry so that we might live according to what He has declared is best for us.

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