Jer 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Proof that God knew us even before we were conceived. Since He is omniscient, He can do that!
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Proof that God knew us even before we were conceived. Since He is omniscient, He can do that!
Jer 1:9
Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth.
Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth.
What an image that is! The Lord reaches out to “touch” us. He did that through Jesus!
We were wondering about the vision of the almond branch and remembered Aaron's staff budding and bearing fruit overnight. Was God expecting Jeremiah to produce much "fruit" in his witness?
Interesting that the prophecies given to Jeremiah were during the times of Josiah's reforms. No wonder the people didn't listen. Things were going too well.
Jeremiah reminds us of the spiritual marriage relationship.
Jer 2:2
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: "'I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: "'I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.
Jer 2:13
"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
How often do we try to do things on our own – at great cost and effort? Our way is substandard at best. God gives freely and His way is so much better.
God reminds the people that they have brought their disasters on themselves. It's not that God punishes so much but that people reap what they sow.
Jer 2:19b
Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of me," declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of me," declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
God is Holy. We should not worship Him casually!
Ps 29:2
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
Heb 12:28Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,How should it look to worship Him in splendor and with reverence and awe?
Jeremiah 2:30
“In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
The people didn't heed the warnings then, people are not heeding the warnings, the harbingers now. They didn't listen to Jeremiah then, they don't listen to modern day prophets today.
God is calling His people to humble themselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways. Only then can we expect God to bless us.
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