Monday, September 4, 2017

Jeremiah 6

Thus says the Lord:
“Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ v.16

Read chapter 6
We all love new things.  We're always convinced that something can be done in a better way, always striving for advancement from technology to transportation to thinking.  It's how our world is shaped by renewing.  Yet is a new way always a better way?  Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, "That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."
Jeremiah has been prophesying to Israel about turning back to the old way, to the way God showed them to walk.  Yet just like society is today, they got "bored" as they turned their focus away from God, they craved more and more finding their appetite in what does not satisfy.  God's dealing with mankind changes but His plan never does and neither does the way change in which we should walk.  Let us not just follow what is new, interesting, innovating, exciting, politically correct, but let's walk in what is right and true that has been known since ages past.
Have you turned from the old good way where you find rest for you soul?

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