Key Words: remember me, and visit me
J. Vernon McGee says regarding
Jeremiah, chapters 14 and 15: “Up to this point Jeremiah has been prophesying
during the reign of Josiah. Now we find
him delivering a prophecy during the reign of Jehoiakim. King Josiah during the last part of his reign
did a very foolish thing. He fought
against Nechoh, a pharaoh of Egypt, and there at Megiddo Josiah was
killed. Jeremiah mourned for him; he had
been his friend. After the death of
Josiah, the nation began to drop back into idolatry.”
So Jeremiah who had stood firm in
his convictions for God and the things of God requested that God remember him
and visit him. Jeremiah knew that there
was peace and safety in the presence of God.
Dr. Tony Compolo says that when
he was a boy growing up in a congested and bustling city, his mother arranged
for a teenage girl who lived nearby to walk home with him at the end of the
day. For this, she was paid a nickel a
day. But Tony rebelled in the second
grade and told his mother, “I’ll walk myself to school, and, if you give me a
nickel a week, I will be extra careful.
You can keep the other twenty cents and we’ll all be better off.”
After a period of pleading and
begging, little Tony finally got his way.
For the next two years he walked by himself back and forth to
school. It was an eight-block walk with
many streets to cross, but he was careful and didn’t talk to strangers or get
distracted along the way.
Years later at a family party, he
bragged about his independence and reminded his family of how he had taken care
of himself as a boy. His mother laughed
and added the rest of the story. “Did
you really think you were alone?” she said.
“Every morning when you left for school, I left with you. I walked behind you all the way. When you got out of school at 3:30 in the
afternoon, I was there. I always kept
myself hidden, but I was there, and I followed you all the way home. I just wanted to be there for you in case you
needed me.”
Hebrews 13:5b, “I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.”
What to do:
✞Know that
you are in a place of peace and safety with
God.
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