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Morning Musings: Proverbs 24:13-14

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017Leave a comment

“My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.”

When was the last time you enjoyed something good simply because it was good? So often, if we allow ourselves to experience something good, it is as a stopping point on the way to something else. The good thing is not the end, but rather part of the means. This can be especially true for followers of Jesus. To seek out the experience of something good for no other reason than that it is good feels too self-indulgent. We are not worth such efforts. It is selfish. We don’t deserve such things. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Jeremiah 4:18

November 24, 2017November 24, 2017Leave a comment

“Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Much of the judgment heralded in the prophets is tough to read. It is gloom and doom that sometimes seems to roll on for pages without reprieve. But, if there’s anything we can take from all of this today it is this: Our choices have consequences. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Jeremiah 3:25

November 22, 2017November 20, 2017Leave a comment

“Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Genuine, heart-felt repentance is tough to do. It requires a couple of things that we are pretty loathe to give. It requires first a recognition that we have done something that was not right. It was wrong, not in an abstract way, but in a way that was deeply personal for us and also for the other people who were affected by it. This is tough in and of itself. Often, when we have gotten caught doing something wrong we recognize the abstract, but not the personal. We are inconvenienced by the attention to our misdeeds, but not truly sorry we did it. This is the politician’s apology. In other words, we are more sorry that we got caught than that we did whatever it was we have been caught doing. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Jeremiah 1:5

November 20, 2017November 15, 20174 Comments

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Our culture is increasingly divided over the issue of abortion. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Jeremiah 2:13

November 17, 2017November 15, 2017Leave a comment

“…for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the foundation of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

When we reject the One True God, we make two mistakes. We turn from the one source of life in this world. And, we turn toward something that is by definition not a source of life. More directly, it is a source of death. When we turn from God toward something else, we are necessarily turning toward nothing. We are rejecting what is in favor of what isn’t. This is never a good trade. So why do we make it? Read the rest…