The Truth is Out There

   Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet.  His Old Testament book is one of my favorites, because I can relate to Jeremiah.  I understand the struggles he went through.  The Lord told him to warn the people of His coming judgment because of their rebellion, disobedience and spiritual adultery.  But He also told him they wouldn’t listen.  They’d continue to worship false gods, including Baal, and even burning their own children alive as offerings to Moloch.  
 
   The priests and religious leaders would continue to preach falsely and they would persecute Jeremiah intensely.  And even though the people knew they had strayed so far from the commands of God Almighty, they couldn’t have cared less.  They were comfortable and happy in their hedonism.  There was no fear of the Lord among them.  Still, Jeremiah continued to warn of what was to come when the longsuffering patience of God ran out.  But they continued to mock Jeremiah.  And they mocked God too.
 
   In Jeremiah 10:21, we read, “Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes and see not; which have ears, and hear not.”  Sort of like the old saying we all know so well:  “There are none so blind as those who will not see. ...

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