They
had turned away from the Lord. They had chosen to go their own way
(Jeremiah 2:13). When, Lord, our message isn’t popular, help us to
remember that it’s Your message – not ours. You have not called us to
preach a superficial message. You’ve called us to preach a searching
message. We are to invite our hearers to think about what their wrong
choices were doing to them: ‘Have you not brought this on yourselves by
forsaking the Lord your God when He led you in the way?’ (Jeremiah
2:17). We are to leave them in no doubt about where their wrong choices
are leading them – ‘“Your own evil will punish you, and your turning
from Me will condemn you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to
abandon Me, the Lord your God, and no longer to remain faithful to Me”,
I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken’ (Jeremiah 2:19). This
isn’t what people want to hear. It’s what they need to hear. Help us to
be faithful to You – even when it’s difficult and discouragement is
never very far away from us.
By Your grace, Lord, You call us to be Your soldiers and servants. Help us not to be "fearful and fainthearted" (Deuteronomy 19:19). Help us to be "good soldiers of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3). When we hear your challenging question: "Who is on the Lord's side?", may we give our committed answer: "By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine, we are on the Lord's side; Saviour, we are Thine."
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