PrayerBits
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Thursday
Scripture lesson: Jeremiah 4:11-12,22-28 “I will not make a full end”
Time to Reflect: This apocalyptic passage is about the destruction of Israel not the world, which wasn't a concern of Jeremiah's. Although graphic and exaggerated, the destruction of Israel came during Jeremiah's lifetime. The interesting thing about his expression of what God was going to have to do, was that one little phrase “I will not make a full end.” Sure enough, the Jews were never completely annihilated.
Moving Through the Day: Pray for God's patience with us.
11 At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, "A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse; 12 a wind too strong for that comes from me. [a] Now I pronounce my judgments against them."
22 "My people are fools;
they do not know me.
They are senseless children;
they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil;
they know not how to do good."
23 I looked at the earth,
and it was formless and empty;
and at the heavens,
and their light was gone.
24 I looked at the mountains,
and they were quaking;
all the hills were swaying.
25 I looked, and there were no people;
every bird in the sky had flown away.
26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert;
all its towns lay in ruins
before the LORD, before his fierce anger.
27 This is what the LORD says:
"The whole land will be ruined,
though I will not destroy it completely.
28 Therefore the earth will mourn
and the heavens above grow dark,
because I have spoken and will not relent,
I have decided and will not turn back."
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