PrayerBits for Thursday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Thursday

Scripture lesson: Jeremiah 23:14-16 “The Lord is our righteousness”

Time to Reflect: Although Jeremiah was picturing someone more like an earthly king, we feel that Jesus was the fullest and best fulfillment of this passage. The Hebrews had a more concrete concept of “Righteousness” than we do. We tend to feel it is a personal choice to do right. They felt it was a divine quality imparted to humans that required right behavior.

Moving Through the Day: Contemplate how God is our righteousness. What does that mean to you?

Scripture:

Jeremiah 23:14-16

14But in the prophets of Jerusalem
   I have seen a more shocking thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies;
   they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
   so that no one turns from wickedness;
all of them have become like Sodom to me,
   and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘I am going to make them eat wormwood,
   and give them poisoned water to drink;
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
   ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’

16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are deluding you. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.