June 2020
June 30
Day 108: Us Included Even to the very end, God's OT people didn't want to be God's people. Their sovereignty as a nation was coming to a screeching halt in their generation; with brutal finality. 2 Chronicles 36 tells the reader why it had come to this. "The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent […]
June 29
Day 107: Decision-Making I woke this (again, rainy) Monday morning feeling rather flat. Not at all sure how to define "flat," but flat I am. The reality of not being correct has set in. Second guessing myself is now an almost daily occurrence. Part of decision-making is knowing whatever decision made will negatively affect at […]
June 28
Day 106: Sojourners In Jeremiah 35, God uses an entire family's generational obedience to show Jeremiah what faithful living looked like, especially in the midst of nationwide disobedience. The Rechabites were a clan who lived a different kind of life. They had been commanded by their family's lead in a previous generation not to ever […]
June 27
Day 105: No Furlough Jeremiah's job was to tell the people what God had to say; what they didn't want to hear. And then he had to watch the fallout. They didn't like much of anything he said. So with their approval, Zedekiah the king had Jeremiah locked up to shut him up. But (in […]