March 7: Jeremiah 7:21-26

Key Verse: Jeremiah 7:25
From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.

Devotion:
How many times do you think God has tried to get through to you? It’s not something many of us will think about because we don’t want to feel guilty for not hearing God! We are living in a world where we have many distractions, temptations and noises drowning out what we should be doing for God!

We can look back at what God went through with the people of Israel and we see the same familiar pattern – mankind not listening to God, God trying harder and harder until mankind falls into their own traps or circumstances built up with nothing more than ignorance by us!

We tend to listen to whatever noise is the loudest and we give in to things which sound more interesting or will pay us more in the end. Yes we are driven by material things and the world is full of material things – so we give in to many earthly items and ways… Not what God is trying to get through to us with :(

God will continue to knock at the door to see if we are going to be willing to open the door. He does not give up on that knocking until the end. At the end it is too late! We have to respond to that knocking too. We cannot leave the knocking and expect God to walk into our lives uninvited: we must invite Him in and open the door to allow Him in!

Points to Ponder:
Are you ignoring the knocking?

Or are you just not opening the door?