Bible Journey > Jeremiah

Here are my thoughts and highlights from Jeremiah as I continue my journey through the Bible:

• "Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you." With that in mind, why are there days I struggle to know God’s plans?
• "Don’t be afraid of a soul. I’ll be right there, looking after you." Be courageous!
• Decisions I make today will impact my life tomorrow.
• God wants my praise. It’s his "very nature to be worshiped."
• At one point God threatened to take away "wedding songs" and "holiday sounds." Hmmm… No weddings and no Christmas music. That actually sounds like a blessing to me.
• "They’ve trained their tongues to tell lies and now they can’t tell the truth." You do the wrong thing long enough, it’s hard to do the right thing.
• "It is God whose power made the earth, whose wisdom gave shape to the world, who crafted the cosmos." My God is powerful, wise and creative.
• Good leaders seek God’s wisdom.
• "Listen. Listen carefully: Don’t stay stuck in your ways!" I hope the Church is listening.
• "I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be."
• God is a "fierce warrior." We don’t often think of God that way, but it’s much better than the meek and mild god I grew up thinking I had to follow.
• "Don’t pretend that you know all the answers yourselves and talk like you know it all. I’m telling you: Quit the ‘God told me this… God told me that…’ kind of talk."
• "I have it all planned out–plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for."
• As a Christ-follower, God forgets my sins. I’m glad he has selective memory.
• "Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own." I want that knowledge.
• "Dungface Dimon will loudly lament." Sounds like Dimon had some serious bad complexion problems. I’d lament too.
• God wants my best. "Sloppy work in God’s name is cursed."