The Lord Disciplines
8 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes: 9 “Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah, 10 and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them. 11 He shall come and strike the land of Egypt, giving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword. 12 I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace. 13 He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’”
Jeremiah 43:8-13
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The Lord Disciplines
The people of Judah did not heed the Word of the Lord. They ignored the preaching of God's prophet and fled to Egypt. We also ignore and push away the Word of the Lord when it does not suit us. God does not turn a blind eye to our sin. He calls us to count. So he sent Nebuchadnezzar to Egypt and also he disciplines us. Like Jonah, who fled from the presence of the Lord, and ended up in the belly of the great fish, so also we cannot flee from the Lord. He calls us to his Word and he beckons us back to his means of Grace. It is only in the loving embrace of Jesus that we are made whole and new. He removes our sin by the blood of his Son. He transforms us from the inside out by putting his Word in our ears and the Body and Blood of his Son in our mouth. This is the God who disciplines and who also makes alive. We rejoice in his visitation among us.
Jeremiah 43:8-13
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The Lord Disciplines
The people of Judah did not heed the Word of the Lord. They ignored the preaching of God's prophet and fled to Egypt. We also ignore and push away the Word of the Lord when it does not suit us. God does not turn a blind eye to our sin. He calls us to count. So he sent Nebuchadnezzar to Egypt and also he disciplines us. Like Jonah, who fled from the presence of the Lord, and ended up in the belly of the great fish, so also we cannot flee from the Lord. He calls us to his Word and he beckons us back to his means of Grace. It is only in the loving embrace of Jesus that we are made whole and new. He removes our sin by the blood of his Son. He transforms us from the inside out by putting his Word in our ears and the Body and Blood of his Son in our mouth. This is the God who disciplines and who also makes alive. We rejoice in his visitation among us.
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