Sunday, November 27, 2022

I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted

Jeremiah 45:1-5

When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: You said, ‘Woe to me! The Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest. But the Lord has told me to say to you, ‘This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth. Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.

Why?
Baruch recorded what the Lord said through Jeremiah, and he frustrated his recorded and people refused to listen, even thread to his life. So he felt he found no rest.

But the Lord reminds him, God is the authorized Lord, God has built and uprooted what I have planted.

Baruch recorded the word of the Lord, so God would protect his life from disaster for all people.

How?

The Lord is my God, whatever I am doing is under the authority of the Lord. Do what I can to honor the Name of the Lord and be a messenger of the Lord to others around me.


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