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September 27, 2018

Jeremiah 7:5-11

If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. “‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.

New International Version (NIV)

                How will we know when real revival comes to God’s people? In Jeremiah’s day all the people went back to the temple. They talked about how safe they felt because they still had the temple of the Lord. Then God sent Jeremiah to the temple to talk.

                Relationship with God necessarily and inevitably influences our relationships with others. We cannot love God with all of our hearts without also loving our neighbors as ourselves. For Jeremiah, real revival involved more than words. Jeremiah explained that real revival would change hearts and lead God’s people to stop mistreating the foreigners in their gates.

                If we continue in sin but claim to be living in relationship with God, we deceive ourselves.   We will know real revival has come when we are changed. We are not free to invent our own morality. True relationship with God manifests itself in kindness to foreigners, orphans and widows. Is that the kind of revival we seek?

Pray with me:

Father, we ask for real revival. Let us find our safety, not in our structures but in our Savior. Will you not revive us again so that your people may rejoice in you? We wait for you today. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

This year we focus our Every Day with Jesus readings on Jesus’ story. With references to Tallowood's Read Through the Bible in 2018 daily reading plan, let's focus our undivided attention on Jesus and follow where he lead. He will not fail. Neither will we!
Joyfully,
Duane

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