Today, I am reading and commenting on  Jeremiah 36-38.

This passage begins with God instructing Jeremiah to write down all of the prophecies which God had given him and having them read to the people.  The purpose of this exercise was that, perhaps, when they heard the disasters God planned to inflict on them, the people would individually turn from their sins and obey God.  God promised that He would forgive those who did so.  The unspoken corollary was that if enough of them individually turned from their sins, God might relent on the disasters He planned to inflict on Jerusalem.  And even if He did not, those who repented would experience His salvation from those disasters.  Unfortunately, for the most part the people of Jerusalem refused to heed Jeremiah’s warning.  However, we have one example of in this passage of someone who did show faithfulness to God and who was rewarded for it during the downfall of Jerusalem.

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