SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 31 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: ‘A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are no more.‘ This is what the Lord says: ‘Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,’ declares the Lord. ‘They…
Category: daily meditations
those whom God restores
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 30 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the LORD, ‘because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.’ [Jeremiah 30:17] On the one hand, God allows His people to be punished for their great shame and guilt; on the other hand, He will restore them…
blessed… to be a blessing
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 29 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” [Jeremiah 29:7] Jeremiah advises the exiles to be a blessing wherever God sends them. Yes, even among their oppressors (the Babylonians) –…
truth over comfort
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 28 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But the prophet who prophesies peace will be recognized as one truly sent by the LORD only if his prediction comes true.” [Jeremiah 28:9] Two prophets with opposing messages – one preaches hope and one preaches judgment – which one do you prefer? Jeremiah admits that he prefers Hananiah’s message of peace [Jeremiah 28:6]…
submit to who?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 27 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Give them a message for their masters and say, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Tell this to your masters: With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone…
innocent blood
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 26 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Be assured, however, that if you put me to death, you will bring the guilt of innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it, for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing. [Jeremiah 26:15] Jeremiah has…
ready or not, here I come
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 25 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For your time to be slaughtered has come; you will fall like the best of the rams. The shepherds will have nowhere to flee, the leaders of the flock no place to escape. Hear the cry of the…
change my heart Lord!
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 24 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will…
whose message am I sharing?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 23 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their…
what it means to know God
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 22 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. For if you are careful…