Reading
SAA Notes
Our great problem is that we cannot purge out wickedness from our midst. (v.27-30) It is in our own hearts and minds. We can restrain sin, but not remove it. Unless the Lord does that, there would be only judgment for you and me.
SJA Notes
* Father God, may Your word be to us life and health this day.
“To whom shall I speak and given warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen;”
Jeremiah is frustrated!
What’s the problem?
“… Behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.”
God’s word was against the church and national leaders at the time. IT is the same word that we read in Ezekiel 13,
“Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is not peace,”
Today’s passage has the same word,
“They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.”
Are we hearing “peace” today when there should be none? Are we preaching, “It’s okay, peace” while going about life rejecting God?
It is a hard road Jeremiah and the other prophets walked. They were called to preach God’s word in and out of season.
As are we.
Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 4,
“… Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.”
This is for all of us, not just those who have been set apart and ordained specifically for the preaching of the word.
We preach through how we live our lives, how we bear God’s Name. We preach in hos His will and word influences our own thoughts, words and deeds.
Is God’s word an object of scorn to us?
Or are we those who preach His word in and out of season?
* Dear God,
Please help us to be faithful to You, even when it costs us.
Please help us to tell people about Jesus, in whatever ways you set before us.
Please help us to love and cherish Your word, to never neglect it, to draw it close to us every day.
Please write Your word upon our hearts today, plant it deep, and grow it, that we might be good soil and bear much fruit.
Amen.