Reading
SAA Notes
It is good to question our religious customs every so often. Jeremiah’s personal prayer (v.23-25) is a most excellent guide for your own prayer, as you consider your own spiritual walk.
SJA Notes
* Dear Father God, please show us Your word today.
“Who would not fear you, O king of the nations? For this is your due;”
In this passage we see again God’s anger at idolatry (the worship of idols).
Why is God so angry?
Jeremiah ponders this.
“They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!”
When we reject God, the King of the nations, we put something else in His rightful place.
God is angry at this. Then as now.
Our God is not a figment or an imagining. Our God is not a piece of carved wood or burnished bronze. Our God is not a false god, not a fallen human who thinks they are a deity.
Our God, THE God, is real. His anger and wrath are real.
“But the LORD is the true God; he is the living and everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.”
Jeremiah wrestles with this, and so should we.
* Sovereign Lord,
Thank You for Your word from Jeremiah today.
Please open our eyes to see and unblock our ears to hear what You have for us to know.
Please help us wrestle as Jeremiah does, with Your anger at idolatry, Your wrath, Your justice.
You are the King of the nations, Your Name is great in might!
Amen.