August 22, 2019
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Reading along with us in 2 Chronicles and Jeremiah? Here’s today’s reading:
Jeremiah 5 (ESV)
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
look and take note!
Search her squares to see
if you can find a man,
one who does justice
and seeks truth,
that I may pardon her.....Continue Reading
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Jeremiah 5:1 (ESV)
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
Sin and rebellion know no socio-economic boundaries, for as we read in this chapter it affects all, the poor with limited education as well as the ‘great’ who presumably have better education. (Jeremiah 5:4-5) In spite of this God is looking for a way to pardon his people 5:1, 7.
Jeremiah 5:10 (ESV)
“Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.
In this verse, I cannot help but think of Jesus as the true Vine (John 15:1) and of Gentile believer’s who are ‘grafted’ into the vine (Romans 11:7). The treacherous branches are destroyed, the ones who have spoken falsely of the Lord and have minimized God’s holiness, righteousness, and purity by saying that ‘He will do nothing; no disaster will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.’ (Jeremiah 5:12).
8″But even in those days, declares the Lord, I will not make a full end of you. 19And when your people say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'”
But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart;
They have revolted and departed.
24 They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear the Lord our God,
Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season.
He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”
25 Your iniquities have turned these things away,
And your sins have withheld good from you.
I read Jeremiah 5 while on vacation…no internet access to comment