Passage Read: Jeremiah 41-44
Meditation Verses: 44:20-23
Thought
Jeremiah warned the people not to go to Egypt, but they called him a liar and went anyways. He warned them again and again, but they grew more stubborn and insisted that they were better off worshiping the Queen of Heaven instead of the Lord. Jeremiah answers that it was because of their rebellion that evil times came on them, and if they don't repent, they will be wiped out except for a few survivors. He engages with them, argues with them, but only a little. In the end, he hands them over to their evil ways and assures them of their destruction because of their insistence on serving other gods.
Application
There are people who are so stubborn that they will refuse to believe the obvious truth. What point is there in talking with them? It will only devolve into arguing. But Jeremiah did rebuke them, then he encouraged them to go their way, but be assured of their destruction. There is little hope for such people, so there is nothing left but to let them go their way with a warning that their way will end in eternal destruction. There's no point in continuing to argue. They will reject whatever God says, so all I can do is leave them with a declaration of their destruction, so when it happens, they'll know whose word is true, theirs or God's.