Today, I am reading and commenting on Jeremiah 23-25.

The passage begins with Jeremiah prophesying God’s anger at the leaders of His people for dividing and scattering them, rather than uniting them and bringing them together as God appointed them to do.  He goes on to specifically call out the religious leaders for being godless.  Then God gets even more particular, accusing the prophets of prophesying in the name of Baal, and committing adultery while living a lie.  Rather than call out the sins of evildoers, they encourage them to continue in their wickedness.  As I read this, I thought about many who claim to speak on behalf of God, while rejecting Scripture.  There are even “pastors” today who call themselves “Christian” yet admit to not believing in God.  There are also those who argue that Scripture does not say what it clearly does say.  God warns us against listening to what such false prophets have to say.  Jeremiah warns us to be skeptical of those who say, “This is a message from the Lord.”  Jeremiah tells us we should not make such claims because for too many, when they say, “This is a message from the Lord,” they are speaking a message from themselves, a message which furthers their own ends rather than brings people back to God.  Let us not boldly proclaim that God has spoken to us.  Instead, let us humbly ask others to seek God’s guidance as to whether the message we think we have heard is from Him.  Let us humbly search Scripture to see what God says to us through it.

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