Today, I am reading and commenting on  Jeremiah 42-44.

After overtaking and rescuing those taken prisoner by the man who killed Gedaliah, who Nebuchadnezzar had appointed governor over Judah. the leaders of those remaining in Judah asked Jeremiah for a message from God as to what they should do.  Jeremiah told them they should not flee to Egypt, but they called him a liar and did so anyway.  They forced Jeremiah to go with them, which makes no sense to me.  It makes even less sense when you see how they refused to listen to Jeremiah’s words from God once they were in Egypt.  So, in this passage the people repeatedly listened to the message from God, then chose to do otherwise.  We see people doing the same today.  Perhaps we are guilty of doing the same thing.  We should examine our lives to determine when we seek God’s word, but do not follow it when we hear it.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on  Jeremiah 39-41.

I am going to start with a different take on a lesson to be learned from this passage than I would normally go with.  This passage speaks about the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon.  Before this we read about how Zedekiah refused to take Jeremiah’s advice to surrender to Nebuchadnezzar and Jeremiah was imprisoned.  In addition, Ebed-Melek had rescued Jeremiah from dying in a cistern, where Jeremiah’s enemies had placed him.  Today, we read that Zedekiah suffered the terrible things which Jeremiah had prophesied would happen if Zedekiah failed to surrender.  We also read about how the Babylonians freed Jeremiah and provided for him, and God sent a prophecy through Jeremiah to Ebed-Melek that He would look out for him during the fall of Jerusalem.  So, we see that in the disaster of the fall of Jerusalem, God looked out for those who served Him, and allowed those who rejected His guidance to suffer.  As bad as things might seem. if we serve God, He will care for us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.