Week 31 and 32. OK, we have been warned!

I am combining week 31 and 32 because I got behind again.   But I also got “caught up”.

I finished reading Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon.  So I am up to date with my readings.  That was a good feeling. 

So, we have been reading Jeremiah lately.  Not one of my favorite books.  But I see again and again (and again) God warning His people that judgement was coming.  And I see that He really hated idols and false worship.  I loved verse 5 in chapter 10, where God described the idols like scarecrows in a cucumber field.  (They have to be carried because they cannot walk) 

It’s a comical image that we can all understand... 

And though God warns the people over and over, they did not want to listen or believe it.

I wonder if we are paying attention today.   We certainly can’t say He didn’t warn us.

What I see over and over is the promise that if we trust and obey, we will be OK. If we don’t, we will be sorry.

Jeremiah 17:7-10

New International Version (NIV)

⁷ “Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.⁸ They will be like a tree planted by the water    that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
    and never fails to bear fruit.”
   

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. 

Who can understand it? 

¹⁰ “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, 

to reward each person according to their conduct,

according to what their deeds deserve."

We need to pay attention.  We've certainly had lots of warning. 

So, keep reading, till next week... 

Audrey