Hope when life hurts
JEREMIAH–FAITHFUL IN THE POTTER’S HAND
Jeremiah must have had an incredible childhood. The Scriptures tell us God had chosen him to be a prophet before his birth.
His family was notable in their service to the LORD.
Life was exciting for the son of a high priest. Jeremiah 1:1 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, (NASB)
One of the great blessings of Jeremiah’s life was that his dad was the one who found the lost book of the Law. How Jeremiah’s love for the Word showed through in his life as God’s prophet. He was the “son of Hilkiah” (Jer. 1:1), and as 2 Kings 22:8 records: “And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.”
Jeremiah’s uncle was Shallum, husband of Huldah, the prophetess. Jeremiah 32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum, thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. (KJV)
Jeremiah’s woes were unimaginable to our relatively peaceful lives.
He lived through the death throes of the nation of Judah.
In his lifetime, he saw the decay of God’s chosen people, the horrible destruction of Jerusalem, and the deportation of the nation to Babylon. He preached for 40 years and saw no visible result among those he served.
Instead, those countrymen he warned for God sought to kill him if he wouldn’t stop preaching doom (Jer. 11:19-23); his own family and friends were involved in plots against him (12:60; God never allowed him to marry, and thus he suffered incredibly agonizing loneliness (16:20; there were plots to kill him in secret so no one would find him (18:20-23); he was beaten severely and them bound in wooden stocks (20:1-2); his friends spied on him deceitfully and for revenge (20:10); he was consumed with sorrow and shame and even cursed the day he was born (20:14-18); finally, falsely accused of being a traitor to his own country (37:13-14), Jeremiah was arrested, beaten, thrown into a dungeon, and starved many days (37:15-21).
If an Ethiopian Gentile had not interceded on his behalf, he would have died there. In the end, tradition tells us he was exiled to Egypt, where he was stoned to death by his own people. He had virtually no converts to show for a lifetime of ministry.
OTI-24 – Jeremiah – Worshiping Our God of Repentance (960904WE) – https://youtu.be/INzEww6bzwk
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