Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"Ask now among the Gentiles, who has heard such things?"
Text: Jeremiah 18:13
UNHEARD OF THINGS!
The Lord continued to reach out to the children of Israel in every way possible. He appealed to reason. He urged them to even consider the example of Gentiles and their behaviour!
“Therefore thus says the LORD:
‘Ask now among the Gentiles,
Who has heard such things?
The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Will a man leave the snow water of Lebanon,
Which comes from the rock of the field?
Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?'”
Jeremiah 18:13-14
1. “Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Ask now among the Gentiles, who has heard such things?'”
a) The Gentiles
i) Israel did not respect Gentiles much.
ii) The nation looked down on them as being “inferior” in many ways.
b) What could the Gentiles teach them?
“Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are not gods?
But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.”
Jeremiah 2:11