Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Year 6, Day 96: Jeremiah 43

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Discipleship Focus: Guidance

  • Guidance: God grants us His guidance.  Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation.  Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen.  Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.

God will always give us guidance.  The real question is what we will do with that guidance.  Will we obey?  Will we submit?  Or will we reject His guidance and go on with our own will.

Of course, this is coming off of the reality that the people reject Jeremiah’s message.  Stop for a minute and think about Jeremiah’s track record.  Everything that Jeremiah has said so far has come true.  When Jeremiah prophesies from the Lord, it happens.  He’s got a really good track record of having wisdom from the Lord.  Why do they reject Jeremiah one more time?  They reject Jeremiah because it isn’t what they want to hear.

It really says something about us when we reject the voice of other people because it isn’t what we want to hear.  It is one thing to reject someone’s witness because they are wrong or because they are using faulty logic.  But it is another thing to reject someone just because we choose to think differently.  It shows much about our character when we are so willing to reject God’s guidance because we as human beings think that God is wrong.

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