Tuesday 25 Jul 2023

July 25: Jeremiah 45:1-5

Key Verse: Jeremiah 45:4
But the Lord has told me to say to you, “This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth.

Devotion:
Sometimes it is hard to hear what God is saying to you, not because you don’t hear anything but because you don’t want to hear what He is saying! There are going to be times in your life where God has said something will happen and you really do not want it to happen. We have echoes of this throughout the bible so don’t feel like you are being hard done by!

When the children of Israel were guided out of Egypt by God through Moses they never dreamed they would live out their lives in the desert when Moses had told them they would be going to a land of ‘milk and honey’ but because they disobeyed God it was their descendants who would be able to settle in that land rather than them.

There are so many times throughout history where people have faced all manner of disasters from unimaginable war-ending bombs to famines caused by human greed; and these are just the ones which are caused by human deeds. We all have to face the natural disasters together because they are the way of nature; some of which are caused by human error, but some which ‘just happen’ because we live in a world which is ever changing.

They key is how we listen to God and how we react to the things God tries to say to us. Can you hear a person whispering something when you go into a place where there is loud music playing? Can you focus on reading your book in the middle of a thunder storm? We get distracted by the biggest distractions and often lose focus on the things we should be watching and listening to. God may not speak to you through a rumbling thunder but a simple whisper during that thunder.

Points to Ponder:
Do you find it hard to hear God in your life?

What sort of environment are you living in?