July 6, 2011 Free In Truth

Free in Truth
Read Jeremiah 3 - 5

Jer 5:18-19 “Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not destroy you completely. 19 And when the people ask, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’”

JEREMIAH is prophesying—clearly looking into the future through God’s eyes. God is sending a message that he will send his people away from him. But he will not desert them.
Why did God disperse his people to a foreign nation? After all, he had gone to great lengths to free them from slavery and to give them a Promised Land of plenty.
God took this radical action to punish his people because “you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land”.
In other words, God’s people did not want to act like his people. They dishonored his name as they worshiped stone and wooden idols. They worshiped on the hills instead of in the temple. They treated God’s truths as lies and evil ways as truth.
God has long shown them the truth. “Ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls” (Jer 6:16) is God’s remedy for the sin-saturated life his people are living. Guess what! It’s his remedy for your life, today.
When you’re lost on a highway, you seek good directions (I hope!) to a good way home, don’t you? To be on that good way, you listen to good instructions. Then you go on the good route. God has a good route to peace, faith, hope and love.
Life with God is a good way. Trust his way. Go home to the Father and find rest for your soul.


Pause and Consider: are you acting as one of God’s people?