Post by Woody Williams on Jan 23, 2007 6:13:23 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Jeremiah 36:27-32
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Now, after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch
wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in
the first scroll, which King Jehoiakim of Judah has burned. And
concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah you shall say: Thus says the LORD,
You have dared to burn this scroll, saying, Why have you written in
it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this
land, and will cut off from it human beings and animals? Therefore
thus says the LORD concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah: He shall have
no one to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be
cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night. And I will punish
him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; I will
bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the people
of Judah, all the disasters with which I have threatened them - but
they would not listen.
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the secretary Baruch
son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah's dictation all the words
of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned in the fire;
and many similar words were added to them.
Devotional
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The message of Jeremiah is repeated on another scroll, but this one
was also not heeded by the king. The king was playing with fire,
literally and figuratively. He was rejecting the prophet and the Word
of God that came through the prophet. He paid for this rejection, as
well as the leaders and the people. Through their rebellion and
rejection they were sent into exile and the temple and city were
destroyed.
Prayer
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Help me be aware that there are consequences to the choices I make in
life and with you, O God. Amen
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Now, after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch
wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in
the first scroll, which King Jehoiakim of Judah has burned. And
concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah you shall say: Thus says the LORD,
You have dared to burn this scroll, saying, Why have you written in
it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this
land, and will cut off from it human beings and animals? Therefore
thus says the LORD concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah: He shall have
no one to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be
cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night. And I will punish
him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; I will
bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the people
of Judah, all the disasters with which I have threatened them - but
they would not listen.
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the secretary Baruch
son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah's dictation all the words
of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned in the fire;
and many similar words were added to them.
Devotional
----------
The message of Jeremiah is repeated on another scroll, but this one
was also not heeded by the king. The king was playing with fire,
literally and figuratively. He was rejecting the prophet and the Word
of God that came through the prophet. He paid for this rejection, as
well as the leaders and the people. Through their rebellion and
rejection they were sent into exile and the temple and city were
destroyed.
Prayer
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Help me be aware that there are consequences to the choices I make in
life and with you, O God. Amen