Daily Scripture Threshing for Sunday,, August 16, 2020
Today’s Text: Jeremiah 8:13-15
Key Verses: Jeremiah 8:14 (KJV) — “Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.”
We have heard the famous dictum uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety, just before he was sentenced to death. He said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” This dictum is true of any man, in any generation and situation. During the days in which Jeremiah flourished as God’s prophet, the people of Israel had received a grievous blow through a cruel invasion. Their lives were battered and plundered, Jeremiah, understood that the only way out for his nation was for her to examine how she has forsaken her God. It was therefore his burden to call on their senses back to their losses so that they don’t glory in vanity.
Today, God's people and servants alike all need to pause and reminisce in light of today’s text. Is God not, through our various generation’s occurrences, bringing us down on our knees so that we would just quit pretending before Him and stay silent?! Like Jeremiah’s age, the smoking ruins and the carcases of our losses spiritually evidence different satanic blows on our worship and lifestyle. How do we free ourselves, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler when we are so badly grieved by so much spiritual sickness, lack of revival and moral decadence, and we are confessing no hurt? Why do people of our age no longer welcome genuine spiritual remedy? Is it not because they are not aware that they are sick?
On the one hand, “why do we sit still” as if untouched by the burden of our failures? And on the other hand, why is there so much noise and merry whereas we are supposed to be silent for remorse before the Lord? Aren’t we like the Laodicean church; which “say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked”? O how God has put our pride and vanity — our prosperity preachings — to silence; and yet we are boasting. We fuss and worry over skin disease and care so little about the more grieving disease of sin. Let us not be content with sin or the guilt from it, let us put aside all arrogance, be silent before our God, and repent towards Him.
Quote for the Day: "The smoking ruins and the carcases of our losses spiritually evidence different satanic blows on our worship and lifestyle.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Lord, we are still before You, please revive your work in the middle of our year; in Jesus name. Amen.
With all my love and prayer,
Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD
The Darling Bishop (DaBishop),
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