Jeremiah 2:13, “…my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” May we ever increasingly drink from and rejoice in the living water of the Christ-exalting Spirit that flows to us because of the work of […]
Jeremiah 2:13, “…my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” May we ever increasingly drink from and rejoice in the living water of the Christ-exalting Spirit that flows to us because of the work of
Matthew 6:10, “Your kingdom come, your will be done…” I read this morning in Jeremiah 46:18 where the Lord says, “As I live declares the King, whose name is YHWH of hosts…” And it struck me….He doesn’t say what He is king of. He just says, “the King.” Of course, the reason is because
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Jeremiah 31:14, “I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares YHWH.” The feasting of the priests on abundance and the satisfying of the people with God’s own goodness seems to be parallel concepts. The abundance on which the priests will feast is
The first section of Jeremiah is truly staggering to read. YHWH is finished with His people and His patience is at an end…He WILL judge them and they WILL be destroyed in the death of exile. I keep waiting for the “gospel turn” but it doesn’t come…again and again and again the people are–justly–hammered
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Jeremiah 17:13, “O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.” Luke 10:20, “…rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” There is only one
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Jeremiah 8:21, “For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded…” 1 Peter 2:24, “By His wounds you have been healed.” I was reading in Jeremiah this morning and came across the prophet’s lamentations in chapter 8:18-9:3. It struck me that–though these words are Jeremiah’s–he is speaking under the inspiration
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Jeremiah 4:14, “…wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved.” I’m continuing to read through Jeremiah during the “prophets” section of my morning reading. This verse especially jumped out to me today, for two reasons. First, in it, the Lord commands the impossible. We cannot “wash our heart” from evil since our
Jeremiah 4:30, “And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain do you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.” Every god except the One True God of scripture
