“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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