It’s interesting who God uses for His purposes.

By today’s human standards of ministry, Jeremiah was a dismal failure. He preached to the same people for forty years, and yet few of them believed him or obeyed his message. He had few friends who stood with him and encouraged him.

The nation he tried to save from ruin abandoned their God and plunged headlong into disaster. Jeremiah’s record would not have made him a candidate for a missionary team or a church pastoral team.

One of the important lessons Jeremiah can teach us is that the test of living for God is not success, but faithfulness.

Jeremiah is the sort of person who cannot sleep at night.

He was racked with anxiety and self doubt. He curses the day he was born.

God told him not to marry, he has few friends.

This Jeremiah the troubled priest, who won a reputation as a troubler of kings.

This is the longest book of the bible.

The story spans the reign of five kings.

One king Josiah reformed worship after he rediscovered the book of law. (read about them again on our blog)

Another king Josiah , grandfather of Manasseh, reversed the policy and revival was short lived.

Jeremiah was unusually young, but age is irrelevant to God. He called an old man to lead slaves out of Egypt.

God doesn’t have a particular type or age of person He uses.

Be ready He may want to use you in a way you do not expect.

People’s faults six hundred years before Christ are virtually the same faults today, just described differently.

Really not knowing the greatness of God, this still has not changed.

And does this sound familiar – The disintegration of social cohesion, and the threat of being overrun by forces we can not control.

There is much to learn from Jeremiah that parallels today.

Today we are living under a new covenant, we have Our Lord and Our Friend who wants us to draw near when the world would think differently.

BE Repentant

Be Ready To walk in Our Lord Righteousness .

He may want to use you to change the ills of society.

God Bless

O F J