STAND IN THE WAYS AND SEE, AND ASK
FOR OLD PATHS, WHERE THE GOOD WAY IS, AND
WALK IN IT; THEN YOU WILL FIND
REST FOR YOUR SOULS.
JEREMIAH 6:16
WHEN GOD FORGIVES, HE REMOVES
THE SIN AND RESTORES THE SOUL.
Jeremiah was not called the "Prophet of Tears and Trust" without good reason.
Today's verse, standing alone, does not seem too awful. When you read the context of the verses surrounding it, the story becomes very different.
Jeremiah's service and obligation to God was to tell Israel's king and her leaders of their grievous sins of omission and commission against what God's Word had instructed. God states His charge against them in verses 13-15 of Chapter 6.
Before going any further, any nation guilty of such shortcomings comes under such judgment as Israel did by God's Word through Jeremiah. I am sad to say, our nation may well be one of them along with many others who forsook God's wisdom and felt assured by replacing it with their own.
Now, verses 13-15, with the Biblical question,
How readest thou?
"For from the least of them even to the greatest everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet to the priest, every one of them deals falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush, therefore they shall fall among them that fall at the time I shall visit them they shall be cast down, says the Lord."
The time for repentance and revival is now. Join me in praying for our nation and her leaders to obey God and depart from sin.
FOR OLD PATHS, WHERE THE GOOD WAY IS, AND
WALK IN IT; THEN YOU WILL FIND
REST FOR YOUR SOULS.
JEREMIAH 6:16
WHEN GOD FORGIVES, HE REMOVES
THE SIN AND RESTORES THE SOUL.
Jeremiah was not called the "Prophet of Tears and Trust" without good reason.
Today's verse, standing alone, does not seem too awful. When you read the context of the verses surrounding it, the story becomes very different.
Jeremiah's service and obligation to God was to tell Israel's king and her leaders of their grievous sins of omission and commission against what God's Word had instructed. God states His charge against them in verses 13-15 of Chapter 6.
Before going any further, any nation guilty of such shortcomings comes under such judgment as Israel did by God's Word through Jeremiah. I am sad to say, our nation may well be one of them along with many others who forsook God's wisdom and felt assured by replacing it with their own.
Now, verses 13-15, with the Biblical question,
How readest thou?
"For from the least of them even to the greatest everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet to the priest, every one of them deals falsely. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush, therefore they shall fall among them that fall at the time I shall visit them they shall be cast down, says the Lord."
The time for repentance and revival is now. Join me in praying for our nation and her leaders to obey God and depart from sin.