| These were the words spoken to the prophet Jeremiah by the Jewish remnant left in the land of Israel after the king of Babylon had destroyed Jerusalem. They had come to him and said, “Pray for us unto the Lord thy God … that the Lord may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.” Jeremiah faithfully gave them the words of the Lord, and their response was that “we will not hearken unto thee. But we will do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth.” What a dangerous thing it is for the believer to hear and know God’s Word and not obey it. The Lord said to Ezekiel about the people of his day that “they sit before thee as My people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” The Lord desires that we, by the power of His Word, “be renewed in the spirit of your mind,” “and be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” |
