Oops, I’ve messed up the reading schedule. There were a few double reading days I missed, so we should be on 1 Timothy. Sorry for the mix up, I will have to double up to catch up. SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 52 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work…
Category: daily meditations
the good news/bad news
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 51 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: He said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud. Then say, ‘LORD, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’ When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone…
the Good Shepherd
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 50 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place. Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the LORD, their verdant…
rich toward God?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 49 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, ‘Who will attack me?’ [Jeremiah 49:4] This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?…
a word of warning
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 48 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed; your sons are taken into exile and your daughters into captivity. Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in days to come, declares the LORD. [Jeremiah 48:46-47] Another difficult passage – so much violence and bloodshed, how can God be a part…
for the sake of the elect
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 47 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: ‘Alas, sword of the LORD, how long till you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still.’ But how can it rest when the LORD has commanded it, when he has ordered it to attack Ashkelon and the coast?” [Jeremiah 47:6-7] I am watching what is happening in Libya (and elsewhere) with…
discipline for a purpose
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 46 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: ‘Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you,’ declares the LORD. ’Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.” [Jeremiah 46:28] This…
how much more
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 45 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: You said, ‘Woe to me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.’ [Jeremiah 45:3] Baruch is complaining about how he is suffering through all this, how awful it is to endure this time of judgment. But the LORD has told me to…
whose word will stand?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 44 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows! But hear the word of the LORD…, the Jews in Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all destroyed… Then the whole remnant of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand—mine or theirs….
who am I listening to?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 43 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: All the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to settle there.’ But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians, so they may kill us or…