Missed work yesterday to help Matt get his paperwork together for his new job. Eskamoe’s is opening right at the end of our road. Air conditioning and Ice cream. Good first job, Matt.
Went to the library and did some work on the web. I’m a Debbie Macomber fan and so I am reading her books on writing my story but I am not getting very much actually done.
I am a Browsing Reader. I browse a LOT of books, sometimes as many as 10 or 15 at a time. Hmmm. Talk about rabbit trails, I must be a full grown bunny cause I am always hopping from one thing, thought, idea to another. Everywhere I GO is a rabbit trail.
Lord, Help me FOCUS and FINISH.
I’m reading Jeremiah and the beginning is the scary parts. I gotta keep going to get to that Everlasting Love and Plan for my Life part but I keep getting skiddish and tossing it down. I will buckle down and get there but here are a few gems I have picked up already:
For cross over to the coasts of Cyprus [to the west] and see, send also to Kedar [to the east] and carefully consider; and see whether there has been such a thing as this:
11 Has a nation [ever] changed its gods, even though they are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory [God] for that which does not profit.
12 Be astonished and appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked and shrivel up with horror, says the Lord [at the behavior of the people].
13 For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.
God himself is amazed that His children would be more stupid than the devil’s children. Even people that worship FALSE gods are at LEAST LOYAL to them, even though their False gods do NOTHING.
For long ago [in Egypt] I broke your yoke and burst your bonds [not that you might be free, but that you might serve Me] [a]and long ago you shattered the yoke and snapped the bonds [of My law which I put upon you]; you said, I will not serve and obey You! For upon every high hill and under every green tree you [eagerly] prostrated yourself [in idolatrous worship], playing the harlot.
God did NOT make me free. He broke my Yoke so that I could SERVE HIM. Note: I believe I WAS freed after JESUS came because then I was ADOPTED into God’s Family. This is in the OLD Testament so the Holy Spirit had not yet been given to everyone of us as after Pentecost after Jesus ascended [but that’s a different study. lol. rabbit trails.].
Then I [Jeremiah] said, [a]Alas, Lord God! Surely You have greatly deceived and misled this people and Jerusalem, [for the prophets represented You as] saying [to Your people], You shall have peace, whereas the sword has reached to [their very] life.
I have to admit how excited I was to find Jeremiah talking like this to God. Allen is always telling me things like this… so I felt like God revealed a little of his character/nature to me here. I’ve always considered him to be prophetic–the first thing he EVER said to me was “I’m gonna marry you.” so… this glimpse of Jeremiah challenging God just like Allen does was more than a little reassuring to this overly reverent Southern gal.
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