Jeremiah 15 - A Broken Heart

 

Jeremiah 15 – A Broken Heart

 

Jeremiah did not rejoice that the people were facing either captivity or death. He was a man with a broken heart. He knew that the nation deserved their fate, but it pained him just the same. Jesus also felt that pain when He wept over Jerusalem, (Luke 19:41-44).

 

Jeremiah did not preach “smooth words” as the false prophets did, and his messages made people curse him. Sometimes we must cause problems before we can solve problems.

 

The prophet experienced the loneliness of leadership and the anguish of his ministry, but God encouraged him as he fed on the Word. God may not take away the pain in your heart, but He can balance it with His joy.

 

The prophet had to be careful to preach only the true Word of God and not mix it with lies as the false prophets did. As a wall, he brought division; but God would defend him from the attacks of the people. God did not keep him out of the battle, but He did bring Jeremiah through.

 

“To be a true minister to men is always to accept new happiness and new distress, both forever deepening and entering into closer and more inseparable union with each other, the more profound and spiritual the ministry becomes. The man who gives himself to other men can never be a wholly sad man; but no more can he be a man of unclouded gladness.”    Phillip Brooks

 

 

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Dr. David Jeremiah Study Bible. Nelson’s Quick Reference Study Bible, J. Vernon McGee Through the Bible.