Today, I am reading and commenting on  Jeremiah 13-15.

In some ways the prophecies with which today’s passage begins are deeply depressing.  In them Jeremiah prophesies that terrible times are coming upon Judah and its people and it is too late for them to avoid them.  God tells Jeremiah, and others who still faithfully served God, to no longer pray for the wellbeing of the people of Judah.  God would not listen to such prayers and even if the people themselves would fast and pray He would not change His judgement, not even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before Him and ask Him to do so.  In years past I was convinced that our society today had not yet reached the point where these prophecies applied to us.  I am no longer sure that such is the case.  However, the passage ends with words of hope.  There God tells us through Jeremiah that if we repent, He will restore us.  We must not speak worthless words, the words which those around us wish to hear, but we must be God’s spokespeople and speak words of worth.  We must strive to get people to turn to us, but we must never turn from God to them.  Let us strive to influence the people around us without being influenced by them.  If we allow God to make us a wall to those who sin against Him, He will save us from the hands of the wicked.

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