PRAYER JOURNAL 8/12/2019
Jeremiah 2:11 Has a
nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But My people have changed their
Glory for what does not profit.
Once again Israel had been unfaithful and once again God was calling them
back to Himself…a scenario that had been and would be repeated over and over in
Israel’s History.
Israel had been set aside to be a special people, one that would show
forth the Glory of God to the Heathen. A people that, through them the whole
world would be blessed, but they had pursued the way of the heathen rather than
the ways of God and God was grieved.
Jeremiah
2:2-3, God says I remember when you were a young nation, how you loved me; how
you went after me in the wilderness. You were Holiness unto me.
So how do we get
from Verse 2 to Verse 11? What a sad commentary on the state of a “holy”
people. God tells them to look at the other nations around; the nations that
worship gods of stone, metal and wood and He states, “They never change their gods.
Their gods never speak, never give direction, never send blessing; they are not
even truly gods, yet the people remain faithful to the gods of their
imagination.”
“ISRAEL, YOU, however, had the True God. I
sat you apart, just for Me; My Glory rested on you and you were blessed above
all nations…HOW COULD YOU exchange MY GLORY for a thing imagined and made by
human hands?”
Today, God views
the His people; the ones set aside; called by His Name and says, “I
placed my Glory in your midst from the beginning. You know what it is to
experience a genuine move of My Spirit. You know the awesomeness of my Presence
and the blessings that rested upon you….WHY??? HOW COULD YOU exchange MY GLORY
for things imagined; created by human hands?”
“Now you pursue MY Glory through things
that will not profit. My Glory will not be found in programs, symbols, sensational
doctrines of men…Stop seeking manifestations and SEEK MY PRESENCE….Only then
will you experience My Glory once again in your midst."
God has not
withdrawn from us; He is not hidden, we have merely “Exchanged His Glory for that
which does not profit.”
AND HE IS CALLING US BACK TO HIMSELF!
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