You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return? Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. Jeremiah 8:4-5 - The concept the Lord is speaking of is easy to understand. If you were to fall down, the obvious response would be to seek to get back up. Or if you discovered you were going the wrong way, you’d make the change necessary to begin going the right way. Very basic ideas that we’d agree with. The image though we get from scripture of Judah is someone falling but choosing to remain on the ground forever. Instead of recognizing that whatever they were doing caused them to fall, they choose to remain in the dirt so they could keep on with the thing that hurt them to begin with. God’s point is this is ridiculous and unnatural, that even animals and birds know better than this, but His people apparently didn’t. When it comes to sin in your life, can we say we’re handling it better than the people of our passage? When the Lord reveals to us that the sin is hurting us and it’s what’s causing us to fall to the ground, do we get up and begin a different path away from the sin…or do we stay on the ground like we see in our verses? Remember everything the Lord was doing to His people was to steer them away from the sin that was destroying them. God is steering us today to, how though are we going to respond to His steering? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3237
Question To Ponder: How might God use you to help steer another person away from sin?
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