Tag: Jeremiah 7:9-11
Thankful for a God who Watches!
Scripture reading for August 18th: Jeremiah 5-8
Key Scriptures: Jeremiah 7:9-11 “Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not know, and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, “We are safe”–safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching!” declares the Lord.”
Jeremiah was called as a young child to be a prophet to the nations. In fact, before God formed him in the womb, this call was on his life! Jeremiah had a hard message for his own people, the Jews. Many of them were going through the motions of religious activity, but their daily lives were a mess of sin and rebellion against God’s Law and loving character. God sent Jeremiah with a message of what He saw!
Thankful for a Watchful Savior: “On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And as He taught them, He said, “Is it not written: “‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations/? but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ (Mark 11:15-17)