We all want to live a good life; a life of peace and security, of comfort and prosperity, of life's pleasures, of relationship and community. Even if we don't expect to have all these things, we still desire them, because we recognise that they are good. But where do we turn to receive them? Where does the good life come from? In this passage from Jeremiah 2, we see that God himself is the provider of all the things we enjoy, but that Israel - his chosen people - had turned away from him and sought these things from elsewhere, and were coming away empty. In our text for today, we see both the goodness of God in his lavish grace towards us, and also a stark warning of what we do when we turn away from him to chase the good things he gives us, both now and - even more so - in eternity.
