Jeremiah 6:8 Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it. NIV
As I read this, the two words “take warning” stopped me.
It is the whole purpose for reading the bible.
We are to take warning of the consequences of sin, we are to take note of God’s perfect and pleasing path that He has set out for us.
The Amplified Bible says it this way,
Jeremiah 6:8 Be corrected, reformed, instructed, and warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated and parted from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land. AMP
For whenever I feel separated or parted from God, I need to get into his Word. For whenever I feel like I need more in life, or that I’m missing God, then I need to get into his Word.
I need to study his good, old way and let it correct, change, reform, instruct, help, challenge and love me.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. NIV
Each word of the Bible is God-breathed, it has His Spirit flowing through it, therefore we can expect God to reveal himself to us each time we journey into the Bible. God will show himself as our Father, our Teacher, our Comforter.
Also, if each Word of God is God-breathed then we can expect to find God in it, that is, we can expect to find God’s peace when we are troubled, God’s joy when we are downhearted, God’s love when we feel condemned and God’s salvation when we are being persecuted.
This passage from 2 Timothy finishes by saying we may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
There is a direct link between reading God’s Word, and then living out God’s Word, otherwise it is like looking in a mirror and then immediately forgetting what we look like.
If we are to be believers in God we must run to his Word.
If we are to be disciples of God we must live out his Word.
Stay Strong.
Under the Fig Tree 