Tuesday July 11, 2006

Text for the Day -- Jeremiah 16:16-18, 21
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I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall
catch them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they
shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the
clefts of the rocks. For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not
hidden from my presence, nor is their iniquity concealed from my
sight. And I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because
they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable
idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.

'Therefore I am surely going to teach them, this time I am going to
teach them my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is
the Lord.'

Devotional
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Jeremiah's message from God is strong medicine. There is nowhere that
Israel can hide from God. They will be sought out and suffer. In all
of this they will be reminded of God's power and the reality that God
is the Lord. God has chosen them and poured out his love on them, and
they turned their backs to him.

Prayer
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Help me realize when I am wandering from you, O Lord. Amen