Jeremiah 16 & 17 - The Days are Numbered

 

Jeremiah 16 – The Days are Numbered.

 

The Lord told Jeremiah that the days of Judah are numbered. He is having Jeremiah tell the people not to marry or have children in the land as there will come a time when Judah will be destroyed, and all the women and children will die a gruesome death.

 

In Psalm 137, it told how King Nebuchadnezzar came and took the Israelites into captivity to Babylon and when they did they took the children and bashed their heads against the stones.

Even so, there was a future to look forward to. God told them that even though they may be taken into captivity, He will come back and get them and take them back to their homeland. So, even though Judah was facing dark days, there was a light at the end of the tunnel just as there is for us.

We have the assurance that someday Christ will return and take us home with Him. We may experience hard times on earth, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

In the discouraging hours of life, God is working out His purposes, so take refuge in Him.

 

Jeremiah 17 – The Engraver

 

When we sin, we write it on our hearts. And only God can erase it when we repent and trust Him. He writes His word on our hearts so we will get victory over sin. The altar was to be a place of remitting sin, not recording sin; but their sins were engraved even there.

Faith in the Lord makes you a deeply rooted tree that survives the drought. Faith in man makes you a shrub in the desert.

The heart is “sick”, and only the Great Physician can diagnose its problems and bring the necessary healing.

The throne of Judah had decayed, but because the prophet saw God’s glorious throne on high, he had hope. God’s throne room is our sanctuary, and He welcomes us to come and get help we need.

 

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