Scripture: The Lord has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and whatever the Lord our God says declare to us and we will do it.’ And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in anything that he sent me to tell you. Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.” (Jeremiah 42:19-22 ESV)
Observation: when men do not like the things of God, when God's way is not convenient to man's desire, it is dismissed as lies from the person who spoke it. It is not a judgement against the person, it is a rejection of a God.
Application: Seek to hear and do, not hear and dismiss as lies.
Prayer: Daddy, this world is a treacherous place and we can not overcome it without You. Give us discernment, give us hearts that long for people, and make us blind to preferences of any kind, for ALL have sinned and need You. Give us the words to speak and the people to speak them to. Amen.
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