Year 9, Day 75: Jeremiah 22

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Jeremiah 22 gives us a perspective that truly shows how humanity is fundamentally different than the divine.  Here is another way of saying the same thing.  Jeremiah 22 is a great chapter to study when we want to look at a human attribute that most humans can consider a growing edge.  This chapter is a great perspective on human nostalgia.

Human beings become emotionally attached to stuff.  Our first car.  A favorite phone.  Our baby’s first word.  The memories of a first day of school for our kids.  A favorite book.  A sacred place.

As you read through this chapter, it becomes very clear where the heart of the Lord can be found.  God cares about the way we treat one another.  God cares about what is in our heart.  God cares about how we view one another.

This is why God has a huge issue with the mistreatment of orphans or widows.  This is why God has a problem with merchants who use unfair weights or scales.  This is why God has an issue with oppression of one people by another people.  These things, and things like them, are all indicators that our heart has a perspective than is unlike God’s perspective and God’s heart.

In fact, the Lord is willing to watch His own city go into destruction to make this point.  This is God’s city.  This is His place.  But places and things are nothing when compared to His ways.  If we want to be a person after God’s own heart, we must realize that God’s ways take precedents over the stuff of life.  If our heart is wrong, our place and our stuff will not save us.

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