Reading
SAA Notes
In this series of messages to the nations, God uses Jeremiah to prepare the way for the exiles to return. Think about the effect of verse 8 over the next seventy years in the hearts and minds of believers back then. Jesus said similar words about Jerusalem.
SJA Notes
* Gracious Lord God, thank You for Your steadfast faithfulness that we clearly in Your word.
“Behold, I am against you, O proud one, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.”
We read here of the Lord speaking against the great kingdom of Babylon.
We know that within a generation and a night or three, the forces of the Medes and Persians conquered Babylon with much swiftness (in the night).
God opposes the proud and arrogant.
We read in James 4 (and 1 Peter 5),
“There it says, ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.'”
We should see clearly then in today’s passage that God opposes pride in individuals and also in our groupings, towns and cities, states and territories, and nations themselves.
From the 1 Peter 5 passage we read on that the true mark of humility is submission under the mighty hand of God (at work guiding us in His will).
This passage can be an exhortation for us to pray for those around us.
To pray for the lost!
We are to be a people who pray that God would save (because it is Him alone in whom salvation rests).
Let us do that today.
* Mighty God,
Please save the lost around us. Our family and our friends, the people we see through the day, those we barely know.
Please teach us Your people true humility.
Amen.