SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/22/2014
9:00 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Jeremiah’s Message was Dangerous PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
1:13-16
Message of the
verses: In today’s SD we will be
looking at verses 13-16 which speaks of “The Boiling Pot.”
The Boling Pot: God’s Wrath is Coming (Jeremiah 1:13-16): “13 The word of the LORD came to me a second
time saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling
pot, facing away from the north." 14 Then the LORD said to me, "Out
of the north the evil will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land. 15 “For,
behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,"
declares the LORD; "and they will come and they will set each one his
throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls
round about and against all the cities of Judah. 16 “I will pronounce My
judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken
Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their
own hands.’”
We have just finished studying the book of Isaiah, and
one thing we saw while studying Isaiah was that the dominant power in Middle East
at that time was Assyria, and not Babylonian, for actually the Babylonian
empire’s leaders came out of the Assyrian Empire. In Jeremiah’s day, that is when he was young
the Assyrians were still the power in this region, but according to these
verses Babylon would be the empire that will destroy Judah. The problem was that no one in Judah believed
this because Babylon was not powerful at this time. Babylon is the boiling pot as seen in 1:13-14,
and they were also seen as a marauding lion in Jeremiah 4:7 “The lion is come
up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is
gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be
laid waste, without an inhabitant.”
(KJV) Babylon is also called by
Jeremiah a “Flooding river” in Jeremiah 47:2 “Thus says the LORD: "Behold,
waters are going to rise from the north And become an overflowing torrent, And
overflow the land and all its fullness, The city and those who live in it; And
the men will cry out, And every inhabitant of the land will wail.”
We see that the main reason for this invasion was Israel’s
idolatry and this is also seen in our verses today. I realize that in our modern world today that
we do not understand much about the idols that the Jewish people worshiped back
in the days that Jeremiah lived, but the fact is that we still worship idols
today. We don’t bow down to idols of
stone and wood like they did but we do bow down to idols of plastic and glass
and other technology’s, now I don’t mean that we actually bow down to them in a
literal way, but we do put these types of things before our worship of the
Lord.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “When a nation turns from worshiping
the true God, its people begin to exploit on another, and that‘s what happened
in Judah. The rich oppressed the poor
and the courts would defend the rights of the oppressed. Yet these evil rulers and judges went to the
temple faithfully and pretended to be devoted to Jehovah! All they did was make the temple ‘a den of
robbers’ (7:11). It was this kind of sin
that God was about to judge.”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: The biggest idol
that mankind has worshiped is self, and this was the first sin that entered our
world, for Adam and Eve cared more about themselves than they did in their
relationship with the Lord.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Care more about the worship of the Lord than
myself.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Jerusalem” (Luke 2:42).
Today’s Bible
Question: “Who killed Sisera by driving
a nail into his temple?”
Answer in our next SD.
1/22/2014 9:33 AM
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