Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Reform your ways and your actions

Jeremiah 7:1-34
The Lord says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say,"This is the temple of the Lord!"
Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the filed and on the fruit of the ground, and it will burn and not be quenched.
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I gave your forefather this command: Obey me, and I will be your god and you will be my people . Walk in all the ways I command you, that it may go well with you. But they did not listen or pay attention. Instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil heart.
Why?
The people refuse to repent. They are aided ad abetted by religious smooth-talkers: the scribes, the 'wise' to whom they turned for advice. the prophets and the priests. All alike are motivated by self-interest.
Shiloh was the place where the ark of God was sit there, but it was captured by Philistines in the fighting field, the place was destroyed. So the Jerusalem will be like Shiloh.
Reform our ways and actions, take care the aliens and fatherless, helpless people. It is more important than worship and sacrifice the Lord.
This is the Temple of the Lord, this is the church of God. Instead, walk in all the ways God command us. All the way, no part of the ways.
The Lord is Sovereign Lord, is the Lord almighty. He reigns over place, man, beast, trees and the fruit of ground, everything.
How?
Obey and walk in all the ways God has commanded us.


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