Author: Norm

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people? [Jeremiah 8:22] There is an old spiritual that says, ‘there is a balm in Gilead’. Jeremiah is lamenting the sorry state of affairs in the land, God’s healing, helping power…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 7 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But am I the one they are provoking? declares the LORD. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame? [Jeremiah 7:19] This chapter highlights WHY God is angry: they still think God loves and protects them because of their precious temple, but they follow the immoral and violent ways of idol…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 6 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ [Jeremiah 6:16] Poor Jeremiah, he sees what is coming (judgment through brutal enemy invasion) and…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 5 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: 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? [Jeremiah 5:30-31] Jeremiah looks fro someone that is righteous; he asssumes that maybe it is just the…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry. Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. [Jeremiah 4:19-20] God reveals to…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Have you not just called to me: ‘My Father, my friend from my youth, will you always be angry? Will your wrath continue forever?’ This is how you talk, but you do all the evil you can.” [Jeremiah 3:4-5] Through Jeremiah the Lord is challenging the hypocrisy of the people of Israel and…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 2 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. [Jeremiah 2:13] Can you sense God’s frustration? After all that He has done, is doing, and wants to do for us, we turn away from Him…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 1 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “Now, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.” [Jeremiah 1:9-10] Jeremiah is given a…

SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. [Song of Solomon…

SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 7 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: How beautiful you are and how pleasing, O love, with your delights! Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like the clusters…