Category: Daily Devotion

  But if you listen to me, declares the Lord, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, 25 then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots…

  You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink. 9 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the…

  Then the Lord said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!” Jeremiah 15:1 – Essentially what Jeremiah was thinking was that if “they” were here, maybe they could convince the Lord to change His plans. For God had made…

  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…