August 15, 2026, Jeremiah 16:1-13
August 15, 2026, Jeremiah 16:1-13
16 The word of the Lord came
to me: 2 “You shall not take a wife, nor shall you
have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus
says the Lord concerning
the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers
who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: 4 They
shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they
be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They
shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be
food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
5 “For thus says the Lord: Do
not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have
taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares
the Lord. 6 Both
great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no
one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for
them. 7 No one shall break bread for the
mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of
consolation to drink for his father or his mother. 8 You
shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and
drink. 9 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your
days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom
and the voice of the bride.
10 “And when you tell this people all these words, and they
say to you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced
all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we
have committed against the Lord our
God?’ 11 then you shall say to them: ‘Because
your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served
and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, 12 and
because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one
of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me. 13 Therefore I
will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your
fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night,
for I will show you no favor.’
It is interesting to think about us sacrificing to be
faithful to God, when He gave up so much for us, but we are called to be
righteous before God, which can lead to sacrificing out own wants for Him.
Our children and family end up suffering when God has to
punish us because we aren’t being obedient.
In what ways have you seen your family and loved ones
suffer because of your sins?
What are you willing to sacrifice so they don’t have to
suffer?
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