July 29

Jeremiah Rebukes an Unfaithful Nation (Continued) - Jeremiah 10:1-25, 11:1-23, 12:1-17

"If I only had a brain...!"

"Like a scarecrow in a melon patch,
their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried
because they cannot walk."
Jeremiah 10:5

This strikes me as funny and serves to point out just how silly we are. We worship things of our own making and under our own control. We don't see the futility and pathetic nature of worshiping money or position or things. We lower ourselves to bow down to what is beneath us. We lower our sights. Instead of looking up to the maker of everything, to something bigger and beyond ourselves.

Is it because He is beyond our understanding and we aren't comfortable with anything bigger than our own mind? We really don't believe their is anything beyond and more advanced and more perfect and more capable than us? How small. How conceited we are...Lord knows.

"How long will the land lie parched
and the grass in every field be withered?
Because those who live in it are wicked,
the animals and birds have perished."
Jeremiah 12:4

Is the state of nature and the environment because of the physical polutuion we've produced? Or is it a reflection of the state of man's soul? Scripture seems to indicate in several places that the condition of the world is tied to the condition of our souls and our relationship with the Creator. Perhaps "global warming" is just a warm up act for the Hell to follow?

Lord knows.


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