Jeremiah 21
IN TIMES OF CRISIS
When we experience major crises in our lives, we often try to overcome them in big ways. Maybe a job loss, relationship breakdown, sickness or a financial crisis will lead us into making a drastic change in our lives. Sometimes those major changes are the right thing to do. But let’s have a think about the crisis that Zedekiah and his nobles were going through when Jerusalem was about to fall to the Babylonians. The siege of Jerusalem was a big event. It was completely life-changing. It seemed as if the only ways to solve it were in big things – waging war, a massive alliance, or the intervention of God.
God wanted change too. He didn’t want the Babylonians to win and to destroy his people. But the strategy God gave Judah to overcome was not in the big events, big decisions or big changes. This is what God wanted: “Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.” (Jeremiah 21 v 12 ESV).
This was no massive military plan to win a war, but a small change to each individual’s way of life that would have brought about a major change in their circumstances. All too often we look to the big answers to our crisis, when we really should be looking at the way we live and our relationship to God.
May our lives be pleasing to God this week.
With love in our Lord,
Robert
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