We are in a section in the prophecy of Jeremiah where we are learning about having a heart for God. In Jeremiah 20 we saw the terrible treatment of God’s prophet. Jeremiah is mocked, scorned, and verbally abused. His close friends seek revenge on Jeremiah because of his teachings. Jeremiah was arrested, beaten, and put in prison for proclaiming God’s coming judgments. Yet in the face of his deep discouragement, Jeremiah has a fire in his bones that compelled him to continue to work as God’s prophet. The word of God was a fire in his bones that he could not shut even if he tried. But for more than a decade, Jeremiah has been preaching to the people only to receive rejection and scorn as their response. In fact, it is possible that at this point Jeremiah had been preaching God’s word to the nation for about 40 years. For decades no one has listened to Jeremiah…

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