Day 54 of 90 Devotion

Dearest e-votees-

Day fifty-four of our cover to cover voyage through the Bible. We have finished Isaiah (23 books down, 43 to go). If you want to see the readings for our trip through the Bible you can follow this link:

www.christthegoodshep.org/biblein90days.html

Peace,
Karl

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Day 54 Readings: Isaiah 66:19-Jeremiah 10:13

Apparently God has had enough with the unfaithful ways of the people. They are likened to adulteresses. They have given themselves far and wide to other gods and idols. God has chosen to bring destruction upon them from the north. Jeremiah is given the task to warn the people but also told that the people won't listen. He goes about his futile task that is certainly a thankless one as well. Nobody puts much in the tip jar of a prophet of doom. The people have abandoned God and God is about to abandon them into exile.

How about us? How faithful are we to God? Do we keep our eyes and hearts focused on God? Or do we allow ourselves to be wooed by what our world has to offer. Do we seek God first when things come our way or do we rely on our own know-how and ingenuity? Is God our first and best resort or just the fallback plan when nothing we can figure out works? Do we bring offerings of our devotion, our time and our hearts or do we neglect our first love? Do we look more like the world or more like one in the world but not of it? Would Jeremiah have something to say to us? If so, would we listen?

God has something to say to us. "I love you." God said it most clearly in Jesus in his life, ministry, death and resurrection. God has something to say to us as Jesus did to the woman taken in adultery: "Where are those that accused you?" God has liberated us from the ultimate consequences of sin. God has something to say to us as Jesus said to the woman taken in adultery: "Go and sin no more." God has set us free and loved us back from death to life. We get to respond through the stirrings of the Holy Spirit. Will we?


God, help us hear what you would say to us and do what would please you. Forgive our wandering eyes and ways. Make us new again. Amen.