Not one honest person found

JEREMIAH    CHAPTER 5

The Lord said to run on each street in Jerusalem and look for even one honest person and he would not destroy the city. But they had refused to repent. So Jeremiah said many people were poor and ignorant and did not know what God expected of them. He decided to speak to their leaders, but they too, had rejected God.

God could not pardon his people, for even their children had turned from him.  So he destroyed the rows of vineyards but left a scattered few alive. He stripped the branches from the vine, for they did not belong to the Lord. Still the people thought the prophets were nothing but windbags and no disaster was to come.

But God heard the people talk against him and sent a distant nation against them. An ancient nation whose language they did not know. And this nation would eat the harvest of Israel and destroy the cities. Yet God would not blot his people out completely. He left some behind to reply to questions of how they sinned and now would serve foreigners. Their wickedness deprived them of his wonderful blessings.

BIBLE NOTES SHOW: Babylon was the ancient nation of which God spoke. It was soon able to rebel against Assyrian rule and be the next great world power. Remember in Genesis when God asked for one honest person in Sodom and could not find one so he destroyed it completely.

HOW DOES THIS CHAPTER RELATE TO US TODAY? Can you image the size and depth of the search God made to to try find ONE honest person in Jerusalem? Doesn't this tell you how much of a difference one person can make? If God had found one such honest person, he would not have destroyed Jerusalem and history may have taken a difference turn, and those that believed in God could have once again taught his love and righeousness.

Out of this chapter I would like you to imagine that you are that one honest person. That Jerusalem is now the world and you are that one honest person. You now have the power of the Lord behind you and can teach and preach the word of God and he will protect you and love you and make his blessings fall upon you. Imagine how you could change the world - YOU, just one person.

It can happen. You can change the world. Perhaps on a great scale and perhaps on a smaller scale in your own corner of the world, in your own city, neighborhood, friendship circle. We all have the power. It just takes us getting the courage to stand up and be a believer. Thanks be to God!

Yours in Christ,
Mary

Prayer Requests are needed for:


HEALTH: Pray for Gabe.

Pray for Arlene’s nephew David and for my neighbor Al who is nearing the end of his life.

Pray for Carolyn’s brother Ronald who has cancer and for her sister Wanda’s soul which went to heaven.

Pray for our friend Michelle who was diagnosed with a form of MS.

Pray for Robert Sargent who is quite ill with lung cancer.

Pray for Gary Summers, my friend from church, who has cancer.

Pray for Judy’s husband who was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. Pray for her too, that she can deal with the side effects of his illness.

Pray too for Charly’s husband Robert who is undergoing chemo for his prostate cancer. Update on Robert: he has one more treatment and then three months of waiting for his psat test to come back clean.

Pray for James’s sister Cynthia whose chemo has lost its effect as the cancer grows powerful.

Pray for Janice's Long's father who has Alzheimer's and her elderly mother who will also require care.

SPIRITUAL UPLIFTING: Gail, Mary

RESTORATION OF FAITH: Al, John

LOVE AND SUPPORT: Claire, Hunter, Brian

SUPPORT: Haiti, Chile, survivors of Japan’s earthquake, survivors of the devastating tornadoes in our southernmost states and Joplin, Missouri. Pray too, for our country’s leaders and our military people who die each day for our freedom.