SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/27/2014
8:17 PM
My Worship Time Focus: More
Pictures from Jer. 2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
2:26-37
Message of the
verses: We will look at the last
three pictures from the second chapter of Jeremiah that, as the rest of them
will expose the sins of the people he is writing to.
A Disgraced Thief (Jeremiah 2:26-28): “26 “As the thief is shamed when he is
discovered, So the house of Israel is shamed; They, their kings, their princes
And their priests and their prophets, 27 Who say to a tree, ’You are my
father,’ And to a stone, ’You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back
to Me, And not their face; But in the time of their trouble they will say,
’Arise and save us.’ 28 “But
where are your gods Which you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you In the time
of your trouble; For according to the number of your cities Are your
gods, O Judah.”
If a true believer in Jehovah came into the Southern
Kingdom at the time when Jeremiah was preaching they too would see what the
people were doing, for they were making idols and worshiping them. Jeremiah writes that there were as many gods
as there were cities in Judah.
Incorrigible Children (Jeremiah 2:29-35): “29 "Why do you contend with Me? You have all transgressed
against Me," declares the LORD. 30 “In vain I have struck your
sons; They accepted no chastening. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a
destroying lion. 31 “O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a
wilderness to Israel, Or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ’We
are free to roam; We will no longer come to You’? 32 “Can a virgin forget her
ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without
number. 33 “How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even the
wicked women You have taught your ways. 34 “Also on your skirts is found The
lifeblood of the innocent poor; You did not find them breaking in. But in spite
of all these things, 35 Yet you said, ’I am innocent; Surely His anger is
turned away from me.’ Behold, I will enter into judgment with you Because you
say, ’I have not sinned.’”
I have to say that this section reminds me of those
who have believed the lie that evolution teaches today. When I was a young man we were taught
evolution in the 9th grade of school, and at that time my parents
were taking all of us children to church every Sunday, but I told them that I
did not want to go to church anymore because I believed what I was taught in
school about how the world began. In
this section the people have told God that they did not want to worship or
believe in him anymore, and so they believed in something that was false, and
that is what people in our age are doing.
If they don’t believe that God created the earth in six days like the
Bible teaches then they don’t have to believe in God because creation to them
was just an accident and so were they.
The people of Israel had a rich heritage as they were
privileged to have the Bible written by their people, and their ancestors had wittiness
the miracles that the Lord had done to take them out of Egypt, but they chose
not to get rid of all of the people that God told them to get rid of instead
they chose to worship their gods, and thus they were now in great trouble with
the Lord.
Prisoners of War (Jeremiah 2:36-37): “36 “Why do you go around so much Changing
your way? Also, you will be put to shame by Egypt As you were put to shame by
Assyria. 37 “From this place also you will go out With your hands on your head;
For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, And you will not prosper
with them.’”
As we just finished studying the book of Isaiah we say
that not only did the Assyrians capture all of the Northern Kingdom, but they
also took captive some of the people in the Southern Kingdom. We also learned from Isaiah that God killed
180,000 Assyrians to pretty much end their threat of attacking Judah
anymore. Still Judah filtered between
these foreign nations to help them, but did not want to come to the Lord in repentance
and ask His help. When we look at verse
37 we get the idea of prisoners of war as we see their hands tied above their heads,
being led away captive.
Dr. Wiersbe finishes his commentary on this 2nd
chapter of Jeremiah and first main point in his commentary with these
words: “Was there any way Judah could
escape the coming wrath? Yes, and that
was the theme of the next point in Jeremiah’s message.” Lord willing we will look at that in our next
SD.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: What I see in
this passage and many others like it is the long-suffering of the Lord, which
is one of His wonderful attributes. I am
so glad that this is one of the Lord’s attributes.
My Steps of Faith for Today: As the weather gets very cold in our part of
the world I put my trust in the Lord to keep us warm and praise Him for doing
this during this very cold winter we are experiencing.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Jerusalem” (Luke 19:41).
Today’s Bible
Question: “Who said ‘How can a man be
born when he is old?”
Answer in our next SD.
1/27/2014 8:48 PM
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