Christian Devotional – November 9, 2022

The Weeping Prophet, Day 36

What a difference the word of God makes. Read Jeremiah chapter 36.

God gave Jeremiah a new message and he gave him a new way to deliver that message. Jeremiah dictated a scroll. Then, because Jeremiah was banned from the temple, he had another man read the scroll. The words of God were so impactful that those people went and told other people about God’s Word. Then those people wanted to hear the scroll and they told other people. It went on until the king himself asked to hear the scroll.

Unfortunately, while the initial people were moved by the words that God said, the king was the defiant. The king did not want to hear anything that God had to say. The word of God often has that response by people. Some people are deeply moved and pushed toward repentance by the word of God while others remain defiant and refuse to obey.

How do we respond to God’s word? Are we obedient and seek to share God’s word with others or are we defiant and refuse to believe it and want to see it destroyed? It is our prayer that we would be open and obedient to God’s word today.