Jeremiah 20:7-12
There are times we go together, and there are times we go alone. I can't imagine going alone. That's what Jeremiah is doing. He is alone among a people that have completely forgotten their God - the only God that matters. Jeremiah is crying out to God about how he wants relief from the persecution. He wished he'd never been born. His friends want to denounce him. But he says, "My persecutors will stumble; the will not over come me" for he has committed his cause to the Lord. (Verses 11-12). God doesn't promise the easy life. Jeremiah tried to hold in the prophecy the Lord was giving Him, but it burned like fire within him to say it. We have to do what God is calling us to do no matter what the consequences. I can't imagine being this guy...talk about tough.
And just for a snack:
"Do you think you are king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord." Jeremiah 22:15-16
Is this not what it is to know the Lord?
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