Some thoughts on Scripture

Jeremiah 22:17--"Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innocent blood, And practicing oppression and violence." There is a reason that one of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not covet." Although coveting is largely an attitude and hard to quantify, it... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 21:8--"Now you shall say to this people, 'Thus says the L ORD: "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death." ' " Going back to Adam and Eve, we have always had a choice, and that choice has the broadest of implications--life or death. It would seem obvious and logical... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 20:9--"Then I said, 'I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name.' But His word was in my heart like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, And I could not." As followers of God, as His ambassadors, we are not our own. His word burns within us.... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 19:9--"And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair." This prophecy would come to... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 18:18--"Then they said, 'Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, not counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words.' " So what do the wicked... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 17:9-10--"The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked: Who can know it? I, the L ORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings." Humanly, there is nothing one can do with his or her heart. It is... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 16:17-18--"For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, not is their iniquity hidden from My eyes. And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 15:1--"Then the L ORD said to me, 'Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable towards this people... ' " Moses, by the clerics, was held in high regard. That may have been in part because he at least once stood before the Lord, plead for his people, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 14:14-15--"And the L ORD said to me, 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to htem; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart. Therefore thus says the L ORD concerning the prophets who... Sign in to see full entry.

Jeremiah 13:23--"Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? [Only] Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil." We are cursed with a sinful nature. We may self-righteously claim we can do good and are better than others, but the truth is we always stumble back into sin.... Sign in to see full entry.