Jeremiah 5:31 NIV
The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
As I read through the chater it feels like hopeless and endless disobedience against God. I felt very discoonected from it. I was wsimply reading the history of someone else, the rich the poor the leaders everyone of this time were making poor choices and living with complete disregard for God's instruction.
Then in one simply sentence it all turned very personal, what wold I do. I'm not sure that was the intent but that was how I took it. I have choices to make everday, do I follow God's instruction form me or not. Pretty simple. I can kid others but both He and Iknow the truth.
Knut
The description in the first part of the chapter reminded me of that kid that's in your Sunday school class, or on a team that you are coaching.......that just seems to do exactly the opposite of what you tell them. And you get more and more angry as the practice or service goes on. They are just defying you....just to do it. So, you send another kid over to talk to them....and they infect that one! I can feel God's pain on this one. On one hand this is his chosen people, and his chosen city, but he's probably wondering why he chose them. The are just defiant, even in the face of the truth.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really enjoying this one either. I got really bummed when I realized how many chapters there are in Jeremiah......UUUGGGHHHH!!!!
maybe it'll pick up.