Reading thru Jeremiah...what a book!! God commands Jeremiah to stay unmarried and (obviously) without children in order to confirm, in his own private life, God's prediction of impending destruction for Jerusalem (16:2). Later on (32:6-15) God commands Jeremiah to buy a piece of land in the besieged, soon-to-fall Jerusalem as a confirmation, in Jeremiah's own life, that God's prediction of restoration of Israel to its land would indeed happen.
What a lesson to us fickle, scaredy-cats who refuse to "put the money where our mouths are"! We talk so convincingly about our beliefs in a Sovereign God who rules all and has everything in His hand...do we back it up with our lives? Do we live like we really and truly believe God? even when it might mean loss of finances or dreams, as it did in Jeremiah's case?
Lord, please deliver me from the hypocrisy of saying and not living! Give me the boldness to look like a "fool for Christ" whenever Your Word demands obedience.
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