Many scholars say that Jerimiah 18:1-12 is the most famous of all the passages in this book of the Bible. Others would say it is one of the top three! Regardless, it’s an important statement for your life and mine. Simply put, God is the “potter” of my life; I’m simply the clay or material formed! That’s a scary thought for some; it means God is in charge of my life from start to finish. To some that is comforting; to others it is downright offensive.

Have you ever had your heart checked by the family physician or a cardiologist? Did you know that the Lord claims to search the heart and examine the mind? But, Jeremiah says that the “heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure!” He’s talking about your heart and mine. We can be deceived or conned by our own hearts.

God is interested in humility in your life and mine. In fact, He doesn’t suggest it, He demands it! Why would the Lord of Heaven and Earth be worried about pride, bragging, and boasting in our lives? The ultimate extension of boasting and bragging of something is worship! We can worship the very thing or things we boast of in life. This passage may not only speak to you, but convict you as well!

This is one of a few passages in scripture that speaks of the spiritual impact on the lives of children by the belief and practices of their parents. Unfortunately, it is not positive. Reflecting on the idolatry of God’s people earlier, the prophet Jeremiah says that “even their children remember the altars and Asherah poles (of the pagan worship)” of their mothers and fathers! What memories are we creating for our children spiritually? It was given on Father’s Day, 2020.

Have you ever felt that the people closest to you don’t even listen to you? Parents can feel that with their children. Men and women experience that with their spouses. The Lord God Almighty expressed that thought with the very people He delivered out of the slavery of Egypt! Here’s what He said, “Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed!” God was offended. He wants to be “heard” by the people He loves. That’s you and me!

The biblical term for “forgetting” actually has two meanings. First, to forget can mean to “cease to remember”. Worse than that, it can mean “to cease to care”. We’ve all been all the receiving end of someone else’s forgetting. But if we are honest, we have been on the giving end of ceasing to remember or ceasing to care, by choice! The most extreme example is when a person does that with the Lord of Heaven and earth! The Lord tells us of the sin of forgetting through Jeremiah 2.

We just completed a brief three-week series from the middle of Jeremiah called “Life’s Realties”. It dealt with issues that spoke to the Corona Virus crisis in our country and our world. Today we begin a full-series from the same book of the Bible. It’s called, “The God we Know, The God we Believe!” This book has strong condemnation for God’s people forsaking the Lord. But it is also the book that has God proclaiming, “I have loved you with an everlasting love!” Both parts will speak to you!

Did you know that everything we do, everything we say, and everything we think or imagine makes a statement about who and what we are? Why would we say that? Because the prophet Jeremiah told the people of God that “their sins testified against them.” The word “testify” means to bear witness. What does your sin say about you; what do mine say about me? We may not like that concept, but biblically it’s true!

This new series from Jeremiah comes partially out of what we are dealing with in terms of the world crisis with the Corona Virus. Suffice it to say, we have never been impacted in the way we have been with all that surrounds us in 2020. These messages come from a book of the Bible that contains some of the harshest words of scripture. It’s a book about the judgment of God; it’s also a power statement about the love of God. Both speak to your life and mine in the days ahead.

This new series comes partially out of what we are dealing with in terms of the world crisis with the Corona Virus. Suffice it to say, we have never been impacted in the way we have been with all that surrounds us in 2020. These messages come from a book of the Bible that contains some of the harshest words of scripture. It’s a book about the judgment of God; it’s also a power statement about the love of God. Both speak to your life and mine in the days ahead.