Today, I am reading and commenting on Jeremiah 1-3.

Jeremiah’s ministry began when God came to him and declared that He had known, and chosen, Jeremiah before he was formed in his mother’s womb.  Each and every one of our stories begins at the same place.  God knew His plans from us before we were conceived.  He knew who we would be, and He chose us for His purposes.  I want to note that Jeremiah began to prophecy while Josiah was king, Josiah who was recorded as leading a revival of worship of God.  Despite that, Jeremiah prophesied that the people had forsaken God.  He refers to the people as having forsaken God’s spring of living water in order to dig their own cisterns, cisterns which cannot hold water.  How does that apply to us today?  Many people have chosen to abandon the teaching of Scripture in order to create their own faith.  However, if you examine their belief system, it often relies on things taken from Scripture in order to look like a good thing.  All of those systems, in time, break down as the good drains out of them without a sound basis in Scripture.  They started by picking and choosing which Scripture to follow and as time goes on they choose to reject ever more because they have no basis to accept anything which tells them to do something they did not already want to do.  They have forsaken God in order to pursue their own desires.  However, let’s not make the mistake of thinking Jeremiah’s prophecy does not apply to us.  Let us examine our lives and confess our sins, because if we say, “I have not sinned,” God will judge us.  And one way we have sinned is by rejecting part of what God teaches us through Scripture.  God chose us before we were born for a purpose.  Let us seek to fulfill His purpose, acknowledging that we have not always been faithful.

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