Friday Reading: Jeremiah 3:1
Key Verse: Jeremiah 3:1
1 They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah.
Devotion:
It is often good to look at how different people handle the same situation in order to get a deeper understanding of a situation; but doing this may well get you into deeper water than you first thought. We are just people and each one of us has our own choices that we make and have made in the past. Each one of has been moulded by the choices that we have made so far and by the choices of those around us. It is always a very sobering and fruitful thing to go back to God’s Word and see what God would have us to do. Just picking up God’s Word and reading a random passage may well not answer anything for you, but by keeping God’s Word constantly in your mind, He will be able to guide you through it.
We can look at this verse from Jeremiah and compare it with the law as laid down in Deuteronomy to get an understanding on the law at the time. We can also compare the situation with normal civil behaviour (as we see it) and draw another conclusion. What we really need to do though is to compare it with our relationship with Christ. Everything in our bibles is there for a reason and it is only going to be through constant reading and learning that we will find out just how much guidance God has given us already – guidance that we may be ignoring every day because we don’t read it enough...
If you had a partner that left you and went of being with one or many other partners, how willing would you be to allow them back into your life knowing just how they have behaved? You may answer that they have broken your trust relationship forever and you can’t take them back knowing that they may do it again. You may turn to Deuteronomy and see that there are laws that will allow you to never have to mix with them again. Or you may be willing to give them another chance – but how many chances do you give them? If we have run from God and played the fool with other gods, should we expect Him to take us back? In our minds, No! But His mercy extends forever – something we find hard to believe...
Points to Ponder:
Do you push others until they break?
Are you pushing God?
