Category: Daily Devotion

  For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal. Jeremiah 11:13 – As I read this verse I think of Paul’s trip to Athens in Acts 17. As he…

Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭10‬:‭11‬ ‭- Today’s chapter is all about highlighting the vast differences between the Lord and the worthless idols Judah was creating. The prophet spoke of idols as…

  And the Lord says: “Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it, 14 but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.  Jeremiah 9:13-14 – The prophet is heavily grieved by what he is seeing with…

  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…

  Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. Jeremiah 7:21 – The previous book we studied together was Leviticus. In Leviticus we learned God’s commands about how He wanted all the different sacrifices to be handled, including the burnt offerings. While most all the…

  The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed. Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them. Jeremiah 6:29-30 – The prophet Jeremiah was given a symbolic title from the Lord, a tester of metals. The idea was that Israel…

  Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had…

  For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.” Jeremiah 4:31 – In this chapter the Lord is outlining the severity…

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed. Jeremiah‬ ‭3‬:‭3‬ ‭- As we work through this book, a common message we’ll see and write about is the waywardness of Israel at this time. Instead of a faithful…

  Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. Jeremiah 2:11 – If anyone was wondering why the Lord was coming down so hard on His people at this time, Jeremiah made that reason clear within this chapter. Israel had…