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.