Jeremiah 4

July 24, 2022

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Reading along with us in Jeremiah? Here’s today’s reading:

Jeremiah 4 (NIV)

1“If you, Israel, will return,
then return to me,”
declares the Lord.
“If you put your detestable idols out of my sight
and no longer go astray,
2 and if in a truthful, just and righteous way
you swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’
then the nations will invoke blessings by him
and in him they will boast.”
3 This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:............Continue Reading

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  2. After Jeremiah’s colorful metaphors in Chapters 2 and 3 concerning the people’s apostasy and backsliding, the Lord continues to make it clear that He would accept them back if they returned to Him in “a truthful, just and righteous way”. In addition, “the nations” would bless them by Him.
    God’s justice has to come in here. In many ways, it reminds me of today in the US. If laws, or in this case God’s precepts, are not adhered to then there must be judgement. Unfortunately, judgement will be the “disaster from the North”.
    Verse 4:22.

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  4. We have here a last ditch effort from God to call Judah back to Him. But then we have the stark reality that God’s words will go unheeded. And yet the warning that this power from the North will come to bring judgment on them is yet another opportunity to repent. The people of God past, present and future can never say that they were never warned. God is always faithful to do so, repeatedly in fact. And when the judgement comes, the Jews are to know their actions have brought it on. And I am sure Jeremiah shares God’s frustration that the people have rejected Him and really have shown they don’t know Him. They are fools for following false gods as anyone is who rejects God. And the destruction will be severe but not complete. And yet what are the people doing, getting decked out in fine clothes, looking the best they can either unaware or not believing that the discipline of God is coming…..how sad..but we have to be careful of that same rebellious and deceiving heart being in us as well….

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  5. Sometimes you look at the world and think “what a mess” but the reality is we haven’t come that far from these people that turned away from God, chose other gods before Him, and slipped into their own pride and ignorance. God’s words even in this chapter warn us today of what happens when we as individuals and nations take God out of the equation. Left to our own devices the mess that we make that effects everyone….so sad that it takes that extreme result to get people to then turn and ask God for help and more sad for those that blame God for the unfavorable end result of their own making.

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  6. Judgment comes.

    “The whole land shall be desolate;
    Yet I will not make a full end.
    For this shall the earth mourn,
    And the heavens above be black,
    Because I have spoken.
    I have purposed and will not relent,
    Nor will I turn back from it.
    The whole city shall flee from the noise of the horsemen and bowmen.
    They shall go into thickets and climb up on the rocks.
    Every city shall be forsaken,
    And not a man shall dwell in it”.

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