Day 221: Jeremiah 7-9

As I read chapter 7, I am convicted.  I know that when I come to church to worship, 90% of the time, my heart is in the right place and my worship is real.  (I know, 100% would be better)  However, this chapter is saying that it doesn't really matter.  If my actions in all the rest of my life don't match up with my heart on Sunday morning, then my worship is empty and meaningless, and actually even worse than that.  Is our church a "den of robbers?"

As Jeremiah cries out to God on behalf of his people, it is easy to imagine his anguish.  He loves so many of these people personally, and wants them to be saved from what is coming.  Yet God is showing him what will happen.  As a man of God, he "gets it."  What a really hard position to be in.  But is it really that different from the position that we are in?  We "get it."  We know God's heart by knowing the Bible.  Does our heart break for those who will be lost like Jeremiah's does?

Love this...

"Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this:  that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight."