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Dear Lord, I am sorry for my anger. I just couldn't hold or understand how she could forget the passport folder. All this morning, we talked about it. It can happen. Anything can happen. I am sorry for my anger. Kendo, losing weight, nice looking body figure is my idols. Change me and cleanse me. Remove idols from my heart, help me enjoy the days you gave me. This time, help me to have one word I pray in Jesus name Amen. 19. Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, "this is my sickness, and I must endure it." Me seems to be Jeremiah. Why Jeremiah talks about his injury? What kind of wound - incurable wound did he have? Car accident? Sword scar from Babylon soldiers? "this is my sickness, and I must endure it." Jeremiah seemed having some emontional sickness because of his worries and pains about his people. When he thinks of God's judgement toward his people, his heart was alarmed and his mind was heavy. 20. My tent is destroyed; all its ropes are snapped. My children are gone from me and are no more; no one is left now to pitch my tent or to set up my shelter. Why suddenly also talks about tent? Did Jeremiah marry? Did he live in a tent with his children? Tent was used in wilderness, but in Israel, in Jerusalem, people must have lived in a proper house. I think 'my tent' means 'my body'. Jeremiah's body and all his ligaments or arms and legs were painful. Or in times of war, he lived actually in the tent, and even the tent was not stable, with no one to help fixing it. 21. The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the LORD; so they do not prosper and all their flock is scattered. I also believe here, he talks about spiritual shepherds - high priests, priests, prophets not physical shepherds or sheep. No one correctly talked about God's words and all Israel people wondered and did not know what to do in front of God's judgment. 23. LORD, I know that people's lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps. My life is my own. Everybody knows this. I decide my life. and I choose what I liked to do, where I liked to work, and whom I like to marry. I choose what I will do today, or right now. "it is not for them to direct their steps" Jerusalem people thought they decide their steps - they prepared house, they chose to put one step in the world and another in the church. So that they don't give up the worldly pleasure but can go back quickly when the disaster comes from God. But they were not quick enough. When God's punishment arrived, it was so swift and no one could escape. It is not for them to direct their steps. 24. Discipline me, LORD but only in due measure - not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing. If the LORD disciplines us in his anger, none can survive. Our sexual immorality, our irresponsibility, our selfishness, our adultery will be exposed in light and all will be punished. Even Jeremiah was not free from God's anger. So he said, discipline me but in your due order. I was suffering with my adulterous heart. I could not free from it. It forced my eyes and my heart to indulge in dirty things. But with God's discipline in due measure, it can be guided and directed to holiness. Amen. After the due measure discipline, Jeremiah prays for the restoration of his people and punishment of Babylon. 25. Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland. Lord, in what part of my life, am i trying to direct my steps myself? Or am I afraid of your directing in my life? I worried about financial status. I had no money. If I buy or continue rent, what will happen? Something could be wrong again life phone scam before? I worried. Financial situations, my parents, my children, my job, my wife, my health - nothing is in my control 100%. Who knows what will happen on these? Who would guessed that Jerusalem would be completely destroyed on bc 586 and people be taken away to Babylone for slaves of 40 years? People's lives are not their own. They cannot decide their own steps. Let me humbly work on you today. Amen. ow) my life is not my own. I cannot direct my own steps.