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Jeremiah 35:17   “Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on Judah and on everyone living in Jerusalem every disaster I pronounced against them.  I spoke to them, but they did not listen;  I called to them, but they did not answer.’”

The judgement Jeremiah was called on to pronounce against Judah came about because the kings and people had followed the bad precedent set by Saul: doing what ‘seemed right’ to them instead of listening carefully to the LORD!  It is so easy for all of us to forget that we are born with a ‘fallen’ nature infected by sin, and our ‘logical’ assessment of what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ is too often contrary to what God has spoken to us through his Word.

Sadly, our surrounding culture today has already rejected God’s revealed truth in Scripture and is persistently striving to convince us by its own ‘logic’ based on a humanistic worldview.  Because the ‘logic’ of humanism can sound very ‘reasonable’, we are too readily led astray by its arguments.

How important it is, therefore, that we acknowledge the infallible Scriptures as our ultimate authority in all matters of doctrine and life (what we believe and how we behave), and that we therefore give a very high priority to reading them in our daily schedule.  “Blessed is the man who walks not in walk the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night” (Psalm 1:1-2).

– Bruce Christian