Category: Daily Devotion

  Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass. The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation. Jeremiah 14:5-6 – One of the deadly results of the people’s sin was terrible drought on the land.…

  And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things come upon me?’ it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you suffer violence. Jeremiah 13:22 – As a believer one of the aspects to our faith life is helping others see the consequences that will follow…

Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive? Jeremiah‬ ‭12‬:‭1‬ ‭- The prophet is asking a question that’s likely not unfamiliar to questions you’ve had. Why does it seem like…

  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…