Jeremiah 18
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares theLord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, 8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relentand not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
11 “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’ 12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.’”
13 Therefore this is what the Lord says:
“Inquire among the nations:
Who has ever heard anything like this?
A most horrible thing has been done
by Virgin Israel.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon
ever vanish from its rocky slopes?
Do its cool waters from distant sources
ever stop flowing?[a]
15 Yet my people have forgotten me;
they burn incense to worthless idols,
which made them stumble in their ways,
in the ancient paths.
They made them walk in byways,
on roads not built up.
16 Their land will be an object of horror
and of lasting scorn;
all who pass by will be appalled
and will shake their heads.
17 Like a wind from the east,
I will scatter them before their enemies;
I will show them my back and not my face
in the day of their disaster.”
18 They said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”
19 Listen to me, Lord;
hear what my accusers are saying!
20 Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember that I stood before you
and spoke in their behalf
to turn your wrath away from them.
21 So give their children over to famine;
hand them over to the power of the sword.
Let their wives be made childless and widows;
let their men be put to death,
their young men slain by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses
when you suddenly bring invaders against them,
for they have dug a pit to capture me
and have hidden snares for my feet.
23 But you, Lord, know
all their plots to kill me.
Do not forgive their crimes
or blot out their sins from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.
As you may have noticed I posted several themed topics this morning that are pressing on my heart. It is God’s word that continues to call out for our nation, our God-Blessed nation of old to return to it’s founding father’s intent. To honor, glorify and praise our Creator and benevolent Lord who raised up this nation, blessed it with prosperity, and is now watching us throw it all away as so many great nations have in the past.
This is not a warning to others or “them” that pulls down the morals of our nation, but it is a call to us, for we can only remove the log in our own eyes , work out our own salvation, leave our gift at the alter and make amends with our brothers.
This call is a call for us, each, individually within our own hearts to change, and in that the nation will change, the world will change. Let’s make sure our own house is in order before we point the finger at our neighbors.
With love, understanding, compassion and hope I pray this day for the mercies of our Lord to lead us toward repentance and not bring the judgment and wrath that we so deserve.
May God bless all my brothers and sisters in Christ, and may our July 4th celebrations this day be filled with the foundational understandings that a nation without God is a nation separated from the protection of God.
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Have you ever read Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s book “The Harbinger”? This post made me think about that book. If you have not read it, I strongly recommend. Also feel free to jump over to my blog and check it out. I like you blog, Shalom!
Thanks for the comment and recommendation James, I will surely check it out. Peace to you!
http://holdingforthhisword.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/what-in-the-world/
Thanks for dropping the link Eliza, I find your blog to be powerfully truth based, God Bless.