I will shortly post a more personal piece on the struggles I have been having while reading Jeremiah, but I have a couple of thoughts that I don't know whether anyone has any answers to or has even thought about.
1) Should Jeremiah have gone off to Babylon with the rest of the exiles, when he is given the choice in chapter 40?
2) Isn't 9:24 fantastic? We often remember Micah 6:8, but this is equally good to memorise. In the CEV it reads:
If you feel you must brag,
then have enough sense
to brag about worshiping me,
the LORD.
What I like best
is showing kindness,
justice, and mercy
to everyone on earth
3) Knowing God - 22:15-16
"More cedar in your palace
doesn't make you a better king
than your father Josiah.
He always did right--
he gave justice to the poor
and was honest.
That's what it means
to truly know me.
4) Since we have Jesus' teaching that He and the Father are One, and that He has revealed the Father to us, we can get quite blase on this point. Yet there is much less of this theme generally in the Old Testament. However, this time reading Jeremiah, I noted two instances - 3:19; 31:9.
So three themes - justice, knowing God and God as a Father to His people.
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