Michelle
This chapter ends Jeremiah. It speaks of the fall of Jerusalem and where the people were taken and by whom. At the beginning it says that Zedekiah was the grandson of Jeremiah. This seemed surprising to me at first as I questioned why he wasn't following God as he should. But then I think about Khristopher and how we raised him and try to guide him even now and he continually makes poor choices and that these choices are what has put him where he is today. So really it remains all about the choices we make. Who and what we choose to follow. It goes into detail about what happens to the people and where they are taken. At the end it gives a count and it is a small number to me. I was expecting a much larger accounting of the people, but then I remembered that this was over many many years, decades even and they had been scattering for quite some time.
The beginning of this psalm speaks of how the wicked flatter themselves too much to see their sin and how their words are deceitful. He then goes on about how the righteousness of God is like the mountains and that's God's love is unfailing.
Julie
It's interesting the way we have been reading about history constantly repeating itself, and most of these people either never had God or turned away from God. We do have freewill to make our choices, but that doesn't mean that all of our choices are right. It does amaze me that God gives us chance after chance after chance...
He also ends by asking God to help him not to stray and become wicked.
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