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sets up a faith choice for them: “He who goes out and goes over to the Chaldeans who are laying siege to you will live, and his life will be to him as booty” (Jer 21:9).
Even in the midst of unbearable circumstances, Yahweh offers a way of grace.
Even when everything seems to fail, we can decide to choose faith.
This story mirrors what we experience on our deathbed.
It also mirrors the decision we face every day of our lives: Will we listen to the voices of the world, or will we listen to the prophets who proclaim honest indignation and faithful decision-making?
Will we stay in the city, or will we go where God calls us—no matter how difficult it may seem or how improbable?
Where is God calling you?
What must you walk away from?
What faith decision is before you?
JOHN D. BARRY
December 12: Forgiven and Forgivin
December 11: Faithful Decision-Making
Jeremiah 21:1–22:30; Romans 3:1–20; Proverbs 17:1–28
“I asked God, and He didn’t answer me.”
When I hear people say this, I’m often tempted to reply, “Haven’t you read the prophets?”
Because sometimes what people are really saying is, “I asked God to do something for me, and He didn’t answer in the way I expected, so He must not be listening or He must not care.”
Yet the prophets repeatedly tell us the opposite.
God is not human, so He does not make decisions like a human.
Instead, He sees all possible outcomes and knows the best route.
We simply struggle to understand the wisdom of His decisions.
One particular event in the book of Jeremiah illustrates this point.
When King Zedekiah (the last king of Judah) asks Jeremiah to intercede with Yahweh on behalf of Jerusalem against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Jeremiah gives an unexpected reply: Yahweh has refused to do so.
He will not intercede for His own people.
Rather, He will make Nebuchadnezzar’s task easier (Jer 21:1–7).
Before we view Yahweh as harsh and unforgiving, let’s recall that this occurs after God’s people have been rebelling against Him for hundreds of years.
Even so, in Jer 21:8–10, God’s people are given a choice: They can remain in Jerusalem and die—for Yahweh has deemed that the city must fall—or they can enter what appears to be death but is actually life.
Yahweh sets up a faith choice for them: “He who goes out and goes over to the Chaldeans who are laying siege to you will live, and his life will be to him as booty” (Jer 21:9).
Even in the midst of unbearable circumstances, Yahweh offers a way of grace.
Even when everything seems to fail, we can decide to choose faith.
This story mirrors what we experience on our deathbed.
It also mirrors the decision we face every day of our lives: Will we listen to the voices of the world, or will we listen to the prophets who proclaim honest indignation and faithful decision-making?
Will we stay in the city, or will we go where God calls us—no matter how difficult it may seem or how improbable?
Where is God calling you?
What must you walk away from?
What faith decision is before you?
JOHN D. BARRY
Nebuchadnezzar’s task easier (Jer 21:1–7).
Before we view Yahweh as harsh and unforgiving, let’s recall that this occurs after God’s people have been rebelling against Him for hundreds of years.
Even so, in Jer 21:8–10, God’s people are given a choice: They can remain in Jerusalem and die—for Yahweh has deemed that the city must fall—or they can enter what appears to be death but is actually life.
Yahweh
Jeremiah 21:1-22
December 11: Faithful Decision-Making
Jeremiah 21:1–22:30; Romans 3:1–20; Proverbs 17:1–28
“I asked God, and He didn’t answer me.”
When I hear people say this, I’m often tempted to reply, “Haven’t you read the prophets?”
Because sometimes what people are really saying is, “I asked God to do something for me, and He didn’t answer in the way I expected, so He must not be listening or He must not care.”
Yet the prophets repeatedly tell us the opposite.
God is not human, so He does not make decisions like a human.
Instead, He sees all possible outcomes and knows the best route.
We simply struggle to understand the wisdom of His decisions.
One particular event in the book of Jeremiah illustrates this point.
When King Zedekiah (the last king of Judah) asks Jeremiah to intercede with Yahweh on behalf of Jerusalem against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Jeremiah gives an unexpected reply: Yahweh has refused to do so.
He will not intercede for His own people.
Rather, He will make
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