‘From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, “Obey me.”’
Yesterday we left the Exodus people as they were about to enter the Promised Land with the choice of obedience or disobedience with its subsequent blessing or curse. Today, we find ourselves years later, about 530 years, with Jeremiah referring back to that moment. Sadly, it seems that God’s people chose disobedience and curse, despite King Josiah’s reforms (2 Chronicles 34), and judgement is coming.
Reflection
In our own ‘today’ what blinds us to God’s grace to us and God’s pleadings for faithfulness?
QUOTE FOR TODAY
In a postmodern world, where everything is reduced to the moment and being present in it, the church can offer the wonder of being part of a drama already in progress. More than that, it is a drama with a good beginning – a good God who made a good world.
(Glenn Packiam, Worship and the World to Come, p. 197-198)