Today’s passage: Jeremiah 12:1-17
Helpful thoughts:
- This chapter gives us an appeal and question, and then the Lord’s answer.
- Jeremiah’s question is similar to that of Psalm 73. Why are the wicked able to prosper in this life? Why doesn’t God seem to judge them?
- God reminds him, his own people, even his own family, have become wicked. Judah was not an innocent nation being judged.
- God does tell Jeremiah that the surrounding nations would see their day of judgment. And, that there would be a remnant that would return. God’s people would dwell in the land.
Questions to consider:
- What often becomes the means by which we measure God’s blessing? Why are there times we might think that God is blessing the lost more than the saved?
- If the blessing of God was entirely tied up in our earthly resources, what would be the end and goal of our salvation? Whose “glory” would be most important?
- What was the nature of Jeremiah’s appeal in verse 1? What did he know about God? What can we learn from the fact that God heard and responded as He did? Does God care about relationship with you?