Jeremiah 44:7-10

We must be doers of God’s Word.

Christians are to be a beacon of hope. They are a living reminder of God’s great love and compassion for man. Our actions for good reflect God’s mercy and grace. Our lack of action based on fear reflects Satan and the tactics he uses to to stop us.

We either believe God is and He is in total control OR we take our place among  the  unbelievers in fear. The battle is His to win. The fight we face is not physical but spiritual and we can be instruments of His plan by helping  those caught in  the crossfires of Satan’s plan to kill, steal and destroy mankind.

The Book of Jeremiah, perhaps more vividly than any other book of the Bible, reveals the inner struggles of a prophet of God. Indeed, the prophet’s anguish over the message of judgment upon his people and the coming destruction of the land was at times overwhelming. Yet despite his anguish, Jeremiah fulfilled his ministry of proclaiming God’s judgment against the people of Judah for their idolatry, their unfaithfulness to the covenant, and their obstinate disobedience of His will. Long acknowledged as one of the great prophets of the Old Testament, Jeremiah serves to this day as an example of someone who remained faithful to the word of God despite countless hardships.

The present generation of Jews had learned nothing from the past failures of  the nation. The people were not broken in heart, only more stubborn

Jeremiah 44:7-10

⁷ “Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving none to remain, ⁸ in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? ⁹ Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁰ They have not been humbled, to this day, nor have they feared; they have not walked in My law or in My statutes that I set before you and your fathers.’

¹¹ Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’ 

Ezekiel 33:11

¹⁴ Happy is the man who is always reverent, But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity. 

Proverbs 28:14