Jeremiah 15-17
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Jeremiah had a tough calling. He had to be the bearer of bad news,
and no one wanted to hear it. All
the other prophets from that time were falsely prophesying that everything was
going to be fine, but Jeremiah spoke the truth.
Because of this he lived a pretty lonely
life. He said, “I sat alone
because your hand was on me.” God
told him not to marry, not to go to feasts or funerals. It was painful and hard for Jeremiah at
times.
In his loneliness Jeremiah asked God this
question: “Will you be to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that
fails?” A deceptive brook is a
stream that flows during the rainy season but quickly runs dry when the rain
stops. Jeremiah is afraid that God
will abandon him.
I love God’s answer! Well, first He basically tells Jeremiah
not to say stuff like that and to stop whining. But then, He uses the same words He told Jeremiah when He
first called him: “I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of
bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with
you to rescue and save you.”
Sometimes what God calls us to do is
tough, and sometimes it can cause us to be a little bit alone – but just as He
promised Jeremiah, He is not only with us to rescue and save us, He will make
us a wall that cannot be overcome!
Looking to anyone or anything other than
God will cause you to be like a plant in the desert that shrivels up in the
heat. “But blessed is the man who
trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out
its roots by the stream. It does
not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.”
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