Today, I am reading and commenting on Jeremiah 45-48.

Today’s passage begins with Jeremiah prophesying to his assistant Baruch that he should not seek great things.  I think there is an important lesson for us there. We should limit our ambition to that which God sets before us.  Rather than seek great things for ourselves we should seek to serve God.  Then come the prophecies against Egypt, Philistia, and Moab.  In each case, at least part of the prophecy condemns them for the idols they worshiped.  The people of those lands put their trust in idols and now God was going to show them that those idols had no power to protect them.

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