Month: May 2024

What the Lord Says Remains Unchanged

Scripture: Jeremiah 16: 1-5

The Lord gave me another message. He said, 2 “Do not get married or have children in this place. 3 For this is what the Lord says about the children born here in this city and about their mothers and fathers: 4 They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like manure. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.” 5 This is what the Lord says: “Do not go to funerals to mourn and show sympathy for these people, for I have removed my protection and peace from them. I have taken away my unfailing love and my mercy.

Scripture Commentary:

Jeremiah is now a social outcast because he delivered God’s message and the people rejected it. What the Lord says remains unchanged to this day and the rejection continues.

God’s Word has given us messages for how to live and serve Him. However, we don’t want to hear it because we say that we know how to live.

When the people rejected God’s message the first wave of destruction was almost immediate, and the second wave – the complete destruction of Judah – came in 586 B.C. But God told Jeremiah to show no remorese and not to mourn the loss of life.

The time was devastating. People were dying and they couldn’t be buried or mourned because they had disobeyed God to the point of punishment.

Will God punish us for how we are living today? He has many ways and a variety of methods to get His message across. Do not think that what you say and do in the dark goes unseen by God. You may close your eyes and ears to sin but God sees and hears all.

Read the Entire Chapter of the Scripture Referenced:

Jeremiah 16

Read Other Commentary From the Book of Jeremiah:

Trust God Instead of Yourself

What Message Does God Have For You?

Through Peter God Shows Us Ourselves

Scripture: Matthew 14: 25-28

 25 About three o’clock in the morning[b] Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. In their fear, they cried out, “It’s a ghost!” 27 But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take courage. I am here![c]” 28 Then Peter called to him, “Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water.”

Scripture Commentary:

Peter is the disciple who always had something to say, challenging Jesus at all times in his ministry. It is through Peter that God shows us ourselves as we go through life questioning our faith. God has given us the plan for salvation yet we go about life as if we don’t understand it.

The people in Jesus’s time came to him for physical healing, not the spiritual healing that he offered. The physical is only temporary but the spiritual is for eternity.

When Peter asked Jesus to call to him to walk on water, his focus was on Jesus. When he took his focus off Jesus, he got into trouble. Likewise, when you take your focus off Jesus and put your priorities on worldly things, you get into trouble.

The number of your days from birth to death are written down. Don’t worry about your physical being. Instead work on your spiritual self that is the Holy Spirit God placed within you. When you understand and accept Jesus Christ, then and only then can you truly appreciate the message of God’s ministry.

Read the Entire Chapter of the Scripture Referenced:

Matthew 14

Read Other Commentary From the Book of Matthew 14:

Listen! Jesus Said Come to Him.

How Can Anyone Walk On Water?