What Has God Done Wrong?
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Jeremiah 2:5,6 The Context: God called Jeremiah to speak to His people in the latter days of Judah’s existence. Through Jeremiah God would “declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me.” Enemies threatened Judah on every side and they couldn’t figure why God was not helping them. They thought that simply being “God’s Chosen People” entitled them to God’s blessings. Being surrounded by the ceremonial reminders of God’s powerful faithfulness hadn’t made them faithful.
God Asks Us: Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless? 6 They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’
jne: Why do nations, churches, and people who have known God’s goodness become unfaithful to Him? God’s question is tongue-in-cheek, because it cannot be that anyone actually finds something that God did wrong in saving and rescuing us in all our past. In fact the first step in our unfaithfulness is forgetting (or ignoring) God’s powerful faithfulness in our past. What can I remember and ponder of God’s past faithfulness to me?
Jeremiah 2:5,6 The Context: God called Jeremiah to speak to His people in the latter days of Judah’s existence. Through Jeremiah God would “declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me.” Enemies threatened Judah on every side and they couldn’t figure why God was not helping them. They thought that simply being “God’s Chosen People” entitled them to God’s blessings. Being surrounded by the ceremonial reminders of God’s powerful faithfulness hadn’t made them faithful.
God Asks Us: Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless? 6 They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’
jne: Why do nations, churches, and people who have known God’s goodness become unfaithful to Him? God’s question is tongue-in-cheek, because it cannot be that anyone actually finds something that God did wrong in saving and rescuing us in all our past. In fact the first step in our unfaithfulness is forgetting (or ignoring) God’s powerful faithfulness in our past. What can I remember and ponder of God’s past faithfulness to me?