Day 54

Are you faithful to the Lord?

We have a challenge in Jeremiah to look to the world: Look and see; examine for yourself what the world worships. Do you see the world throwing away their idols (false gods) for another? No. They keep worshipping that idol, never turning from it. They chase it and follow it even at their own expense, yet the idol never hears and never helps. Consider this passage from Jeremiah:

For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. (Jeremiah 2:10-11)

But what does it say about God's own people? We do exchange. We cast God aside for the gods (idols) of this world. This is so warped and twisted that reading it with our own eyes seems strange. We ask, "Is this really true? And if so, what is the solution?"

God does not leave us to despair in our own whoredoms. Even in Jeremiah we see that God will take us back even when we go a whoring on every hill top and under every green tree (Jeremiah 2:20). The answer is repentance and submission. Consider the following: 

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. (Jeremiah 3:13-15)

Have you confessed your need for Christ Jesus today? Do you respect the knowledge and understanding of your pastor? Do you have a pastor? They look out for your own soul and must give an account of it one day (Hebrews 13:17).

In Christ,

Jay Silvas