SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/25/2014
10:04 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 of Rebellion: God Sees His People’s Sins
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Jeremiah
2:9-19
Message of the
verses: We will try to look at two
more of the ten sub-points in this rather long chapter two of Jeremiah, which
are two more of the pictures that Jeremiah uses to expose the sins of the
people he is ministering to in the Southern Kingdom.
Broken Cisterns (Jeremiah 2:9-13): “9 “Therefore I will yet contend with
you," declares the LORD, "And with your sons’ sons I will contend. 10
"For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and
observe closely And see if there has been such a thing as this! 11 "Has a nation
changed gods When they were not gods? But My people have changed their glory
For that which does not profit. 12 "Be appalled, O heavens, at this, And
shudder, be very desolate," declares the LORD. 13 "For My people have
committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To
hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.”
Jeremiah is telling the people of Judah that there has
never been a people that have changed gods, especially when the nation of
Israel had a relationship with the one true God. When Jeremiah lists different nations he is
actually saying “God from west to east” and see if this has happened. Israel had the opportunity to drink from the
fresh waters, but chose to drink from the muddy cisterns that could not hold
fresh waters.
A Plundered Slave (Jeremiah 2:14-19): “14 “Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn
servant? Why has he become a prey? 15 “The young lions have roared at him, They
have roared loudly. And they have made his land a waste; His cities have been
destroyed, without inhabitant. 16 “Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes Have
shaved the crown of your head. 17 “Have you not done this to yourself By your
forsaking the LORD your God When He led you in the way? 18 “But now what are
you doing on the road to Egypt, To drink the waters of the Nile? Or what are
you doing on the road to Assyria, To drink the waters of the Euphrates? 19 "Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will
reprove you; Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter For you to
forsake the LORD your God, And the dread of Me is not in you," declares
the Lord GOD of hosts.”
I want to make three points here from these verses: First God brought the children of Israel out
of the land of Egypt and put them in the Promised Land. Now they want to rely upon Egypt and Assyria
to give them help, and this was a big mistake on their part for they should
have trusted the Lord who had brought them into their land years earlier.
Next I want to quote verse nineteen from the KJV: “19
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know
therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken
the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.” We see that the KJV uses the word “backsliding”
in this verse while NASB uses the word “apostasies.”
The dictionary that I have in my Online Bible Program says the following
about this word: “1) turning away,
turning back, apostasy, backsliding.” The
word is not found in the NT, but we see evidences of it in different books in
the NT like Gal. 5:4 and others.
The last point I want to make from this section is what
God is saying to Judah in verse nineteen, and that is if they were not going to
trust Him he would let them go their way and there sin would find them
out. In other words the consequences of
their sins would be their punishment.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I have seen times
in my life when people I know have had their sin find them out and it was not a
pretty picture for them either. God says
in His Word that He will work all thing out for believers to bring glory to
Himself and to be good for us. I believe
this but I would just like to do things right.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Into the Red Sea” (Exodus
10:19)
Today’s Bible Question: “Unto the Jews Paul became as a Jew, that he
might gain whom?”
Answer in our next SD.
1/25/2014 11:06 AM
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