Good Morning Friends,
Jeremiah said, “When your words came I ate
them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, O Lord God
Almighty. I never sat in the company of revelers, I sat alone because your hand
was on me and you had filled me with indignation.” (Jeremiah 15:16-17)
Jeremiah got pleasure from the Lord and His
Word. God’s Word wasn’t available to Jeremiah in the same way it is available
to us. It is so easy for us to pick the Word up off our desk or bookshelf and
read and meditate upon it. The Jews had the scrolls that contained the books of
the Old Testament that had been written to that point in history, but they were
kept in the Temple and used by the priests. The people had little access to
them except through what the priests read for them.
But Jeremiah had another source for God’s Word:
God spoke directly to him. When God spoke, Jeremiah listened. He took what God
spoke and ate it, he made it a part of himself. He meditated on it and followed
it. In doing that he found great joy.
That was a choice Jeremiah made. Others took
their joy in the things of the world, but Jeremiah took his joy in the things
of the Lord. It was a choice to sit apart from the world rather than join and
be a partaker of the pleasures that were available.
Although the Word of God is more easily
available to us than it was to Jeremiah, do we take advantage of it and take it
in and make it a part of ourselves? OR do we leave it sitting on the table or
gathering dust on the bookshelf and rarely lift it up to read?
When we read, is it duty and drudgery or is it
joy and delight? What does our response to God’s Word say about our hearts?
Where do you take your pleasure? What choice
have you made?
His, by Grace, Steve
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