Wednesday, May 8, 2019

STANDING AGAINST THE TIDE


“In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world!”
John 16:33

Do you ever feel as if you stand alone, misunderstood and out of step with your colleagues? If you even faintly understand what it is like to feel like that then you must know, in a small way, how Jeremiah felt long ago. Called by God to be a voice crying against the wrongdoing of his day, it seemed that he was always paying the price for the faithfulness to God in the currency of loneliness and persecution. Accused of treason because he prophesied Judah’s defeat by the Babylonian, he was thrown in a dungeon. And Ethiopian – not even one of his own race of culture – rescued him.

Old Jeremiah was an individualist, whose character was a forceful as the men of his day were weak and cowardly. Though he was hated with a passion, people knew that Jeremiah was right. He thundered forth the truth which they didn’t want to hear.

In spite of his cry of doom, Jeremiah’s message was laced with hope which comes through turning back to God. “I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord. “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:11-13).

Tradition has it that five years after Judah was overthrown by Babylon, Jeremiah was stoned by his own people, yet he lives on as a man who dares to stand by his own convictions. As evil increases in the world, so will the isolation that people who stand tall and hold on the truth experience.

God Bless YOU..
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