Day 207
Reading: Jeremiah 42:1 - Jeremiah 45:5
When life's blows strike us our response matters more than we realise. Many believers today are in a place of bewilderment because life has dealt blows that have knocked the wind out of them. As a result, many are questioning whether God is still God. Reading the Book of Jeremiah I have been encouraged to trust in God at all times.
The remnant children of Israel upon seeing the King of Babylon conquer them asked Jeremiah to seek the mind of God regarding their desire to go to Egypt. The same pattern of thinking that their forefathers had in saying let's go back to Egypt was on display generations after. Many people don't realise the importance of right thinking. God delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt, to desire to go there for safety is a smack to God in the face! When faced with trouble don't allow the thinking of God helps those who help themselves send you to Egypt. It's a death trap!
Many times we find that when trouble strikes we want to run to our past helpers. Someone may run to the ex who bailed them before and they ended up giving some 'side-benefits in kind' which they know are a sin. When you ask this person why they say I needed help and the only help I could get was in Egypt. I have used just one example to highlight how we run to Egypt. Just check yourself, look at your thought processes and actions to see whether you run to God or to Egypt. When you come up with a game plan to deal with the issue you are facing is the game plan pleasing to God or full of Egypt where Egypt represents the world?
The children of Israel didn't heed Jeremiah's prophetic word and instead went to Egypt. While there they decided to burn incense to the queen of heaven as they had done in Judah. Twice we see the Book of Jeremiah mention the queen of heaven Jeremiah 7 and Jeremiah 44. The wives would burn incense to an idol in Egypt with permission from their husbands. They run away from Judah because Nebuchadnezzar had conquered the land and God told them that they were conquered for committing this sin. They now thought that they would be well off serving the idol and not God the folly of many believers today. God pronounced that judgement would meet them in Egypt without fail.
Many believers have backslidden inwardly while outwardly they claim to be serving God. They are serving an idol called themselves and their desires. Don't decide to help yourself whilst facing trouble by helping yourself in Egypt. That will be detrimental and of no gain. Learn to trust God wholly and don't let go. The land where you are, and this will represent from your life, business, marriage, career, to life, may not be where you desire. Your land may look desolate run over by the enemy. Trust God to build you. Don't run to Egypt. Run to God and let Him build you anew.
Memory Verse: Jeremiah 42:10
Decree:
Jeremiah 42:10
‘If you will still remain in this land, then I will build you and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up. For I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought upon you. (italics mine)
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