Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Jeremiah 19
19 This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests 2 and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you,...14 Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the Lord’s temple and said to all the people, 15 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says......................................................................................................................my browser is still messed up so to create spacing I am using these periods. Today's chapter hit me as one about being obedient. God told Jeremiah where to go, what to say and do and he did it. Can you imagine going to the front entrance of a popular mall in Detroit and proclaiming God's message? I can't. He didn't appear to be concerned with what they might think, he just knew he had been given a job by God and he was going to do it. I struggle to share my faith with one person I think might reject it let alone hundreds.
knut
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I've been noticing the same thing. God usually is telling Jeremiah to do something....and then he speaks to him. I am struck by Jeremiah's obedience too. I would be asking.......what kind of sense does this make?.......why would I go buy a jar......I don't need a jar.....why wouldn't God just talk to me.....Does he think I don't understand what a clay jar is?. Hhahaha......putz.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff. Keep it comin'