Scripture Verses that Caught my attention today: Jeremiah 35:27-28 Now, after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 28 Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which King Jehoiakim of Judah has burned.
Observation: This was a lot of work to do over. Writing in those days was no easy feat.
Application: Most of us have been there, we’ve been working on something on the computer and all of a sudden the power goes out or the program freezes up and all the data that we created is lost. We’ve got to start over. We sigh. We pound something. We curse the computer. We gasp. We maybe take a break and then, with disgust, start over, this time hitting the save icon about every 30 seconds!
But that pales in comparison to what Jeremiah—and especially Baruch who had to write everything down—went through. Scrolls weren’t exactly a dime a dozen in those days and they weren’t using ball-point pins either.
No matter. Truth is worth sharing, over and over again.
Prayer: Lord, thanks for your word whenever and from whoever it comes. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
(readings today included: Jeremiah 26, 35, 36 and John 20)
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