Devotions from Jeremiah

Passage Read: Jeremiah 1-4 Meditation Verse: 1:17 Jeremiah is a youth, yet he is called by God to proclaim His message of judgment and warning. He is called to speak to rulers and nations and crowds of people, and God warns him not to be…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 5-8 Meditation Verse: 6:16 Ecclesiastes tells us not to ask why the former days were better than the present, for that doesn't come from wisdom. But God tells Jeremiah that we should be seeking out the former ways, the ancient paths, the…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 9-12 Meditation Verse: 11:6 Jeremiah was commanded to go through the cities of Judah and streets of Jerusalem proclaiming the Lord's covenant that the people had violated. City by city, town by town in Judah, and street by street in Jerusalem. There…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 13-16 Meditation Verses: 14:13-16 The Lord tells Jeremiah not to pray for the people because there is no hope for them; they will be cast out of the Lord's land. But Jeremiah sees the problem: Their prophets are telling them that everything…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 17-20 Meditation Verses: 20:7-8 This is the hard part of truly knowing the Lord and seeing as He sees. Every time Jeremiah opens his mouth, he speaks destruction and disaster and violence against his people. That's all he sees for his people,…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 21-24 Meditation Verses: 23:28-29 God is against all the prophets who speak out of their own ideas and dreams, who do not speak the Word of the Lord, but speak their own ideas and call them "the Word of the Lord." Yet…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 25-28 Meditation Verses: 28:13-17 It is interesting that God put Hananiah to death within three months of challenging Jeremiah's prophecy. There were other false prophets who didn't die, but did they take warning, at least for a short time? Worse than that,…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 29-32 Meditation Verses: 32:38-41 In the previous chapter, God tells of the new covenant He will make with the house of Israel, they He will put His law in their hearts, that all will know Him and no longer need anyone to…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 33-36 Meditation Verses: 34:15-16 The Israelites proclaimed freedom for the slaves they had made of their fellow Israelites, finally doing something that was right in the eyes of the Lord. They should have done it for each one at the end of…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 37-40 Meditation Verse: 38:17-18 If Zedekiah had humbled himself and surrendered to the king of Babylon, Jerusalem would have been spared. He had power to rescue the city and the temple. But he refused and so both were destroyed. He thought he…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 41-44 Meditation Verses: 42:19-22 God's word is far more clear than we're willing to admit. We claim that it is unclear or not really God's word, but some person's interpretation, and so we let ourselves off the hook. But we're only deceiving…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 45-48 Meditation Verses: 48:11-12 It is easy to think much of oneself when you have never been tested. It is easy to think you are very strong when you have never been attacked. Moab sat undisturbed for so long that they became…

Passage Read: Jeremiah 49-52 Meditation Verse: 51:5 The Lord has not forsaken Israel, though they have sinned greatly before the Lord. He has put many to death that did not repent, that refused to change their ways and worship Him alone, but He did not…