Why Do My People Say?
24021 Jeremiah 2:31-32 The Context: Jeremiah agonized over the way his people, the Jews of Judah, have forsaken God and repeatedly sought to make their own life apart from God. They were floundering as a nation and God was using Jeremiah to try to awaken them to the eternal seriousness of rejecting God’s love for them.
God Asks Us: “And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘We are free, we will come no more to you’? 32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.” 33 “How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.
jne: What is there in us that we tend to forget God’s goodness so quickly? Like Judah, God has blessed me in so many ways. I really don’t have any real reasons to say that God has neglected or been dark to me. No one forgets the things they truly cherish. Why then am I prone to turn away from the God Who loves and cares so very much for me? Could it be that I ignore God a lot more than I think I do?
God Asks Us: “And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘We are free, we will come no more to you’? 32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.” 33 “How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.
jne: What is there in us that we tend to forget God’s goodness so quickly? Like Judah, God has blessed me in so many ways. I really don’t have any real reasons to say that God has neglected or been dark to me. No one forgets the things they truly cherish. Why then am I prone to turn away from the God Who loves and cares so very much for me? Could it be that I ignore God a lot more than I think I do?