ANOTHER SCROLL
Today’s Reading: Jeremiah 35-36
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Sometimes hard to spot, Bedouin tents can be seen as you drive through the wilderness around the Jordan Valley. Jeremiah 35:7 tells us that, like some Bedouins, the Rechabites lived in isolated places.
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Key Verses: Jeremiah 35:13; 36:28
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘Will you not receive instruction to obey My words?’ says the Lord…Take yet another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned…”
Jeremiah 35 reverts back in time at least 11 years before the immediately preceding chapters. King Jehoiakim and his court had turned away from God, but there still were true believers in Jerusalem. The Rechabites (35:2) were a clan that had lived as nomads, living for the most part in tents in the wilderness, something like the Bedouin tent pictured above. They would not allow themselves to be under the influence of the corruption of the city, even though they had moved in for protection. They remained steadfast in their loyalty and obedience to God. They had maintained this for 300 years, ever since their ancestor, Jonadab, had helped King Jehu eradicate the worship of the false god, Baal, from Israel (read 2 Kings 10:15-23). They stayed away from the idolatrous cults in which intoxicating drink played a major role. The Lord used a test of the Rechabites’ obedience as an object lesson to show the rest of Jerusalem’s people how they had sinned. They would be put to shame by this example and hopefully repent! Let’s think about this example for us today.
Jeremiah 36 shows us that, even though the King burnt the first scroll which contained Jeremiah’s message from God, God’s Word will ultimately prevail.
Therefore, let us be loyal to God as were the Rechabites, and let us be determined to make the Word of God known as were Jeremiah and Baruch. Amen!!!
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Lord God, there were Church of England priests by the names of John and Charles Wesley who, like Jonadab, the son of Rechab, left a legacy. The Wesley brothers’ legacy was known as Methodism. This message, and that of other men and women of God in other movements of revival, has reached down to my generation hundreds of years later and has had a profound influence on me. May I be faithful and wise in passing such a legacy on to future generations. In the Name of the One Who is Faithful and True, the Lord Jesus Christ (Messiah), Amen!!!
100 PERSONAL WORDS:
In a way, this blog is something like the efforts of Jeremiah and Baruch who had to do their scroll writings twice to make sure that God’s Word was maintained for current and future generations. I don’t understand much about the technology I’m using in making this blog. Sometimes I’ve made a technical mistake and my blog has been burned up somewhere in the “blogosphere.” I just pray for patience and write it again. Writing on a scroll would be simpler. I could understand that. Here is a way of writing that will last! I’m told that as long as the laws of God’s creation allow this blog to exist in the blogosphere, it will continue to be available all over the world! These words I’m typing will be here for anyone who takes the trouble to Google anything that approximates 100words, Crossroads, 100huntleystreet, etc. Please help share this blog with others. Remember, a person can start any day and in just 24 months complete the reading of the Bible from cover to cover, New Testament to the Old Testament and back to the New, book by book.
Yours for making absolutely sure that God’s Word is faithfully communicated!
David
Amen, David! The saints are sharing 100words.ca and the gospel of Jesus Christ with everyone we meet! There is no other love as pure and true than that of our Lord and Saviour. There is no greater gift given to us than His Holy Word!
May we rise, this day, to the occasion of serving our God, with a grateful heart! Amen! Wishing all saints a blessed day!
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Psalm 42:7
“Men may misjudge thy aim,
Think they have cause to blame,
Say, thou art wrong;
Keep on thy quiet way,
Christ is the Judge, not they,
Fear not, be strong.”
From Streams in the Desert, Cowman, February 10
The Maker, Chris August
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH03GMmdMRI
Here is a version with the lyrics:
The Maker, Chris August
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8ZVRzBU7KA
Thanks for the link.I will share this on FB.Blessings
Amen David what better way to make your day perfect, by passing the message on to someone who does not know the love our Lord can give.
Amen, David. Just posted today’s blog to my Facebook page. Love sharing the Word with others which the Lord said would not return unto Him void.(Isaiah 55:11). Have a great day saints!
Great is thy Faithfulnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hymoaXERLpYess by Larnelle Harris
This song is not working. Sorry
It worked for me,no problem.Here it is from Youtube directly:
https://youtu.be/lH03GMmdMRI
Here is the link for you, sister Ger:
Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Larnell Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hymoaXERLpY
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Thank You so much for those links. Special thanks to Beverlee Kay. I always get a blessing from the music she selects. I really do.
Of course the 100Word blog also bring such wonderful truth & blessing too. I’m always glad when it is more than 100 words. Thank you so much David, Ron, Anne and Reynold(spelling?).
Amen
Dear David
Be assured that your legacy is strong and the Lord is pleased with all those that have come into a personal relationship with Jesus and for those in the faith encouraged through your years and years of sharing the gospel through, television, print, live events, radio and the internet.
Amen George.
yes, Amen George!
Thank you so much David for being faithful to writing and sharing so much good and godly information. I have shared with many of my friends how much I am learning of God,s word through your blog.
Thank you for this blog David!!!
Thank all who contribute to the Glory of God!!!
Yes God is faithful! His Word says He will never forsake us! He also says to cast our cares unto Him, we are to come with prayers, praise, thanksgiving and whatsoever we ask He will give it to us….
I pray He will help me deal with a mental illness and a sleep disorder! Last night I was able to go to a pancake super at church because it was in the evening! IT WAS WONDERFUL, TASTED DELICIOUS AND WONDERFUL TO SEE EVERYBODY AGAIN!
thank you Lord for last night! AMEN