Even though Jeremiah speaks so much concerning Israel’s sin and God’s wrath, chastisement, and punishment, in this book we also see that God’s intention in His economy is to be the fountain, the source, of living waters to dispense Himself into His chosen people for their satisfaction and enjoyment to produce the church as God’s […]
God made Christ our Righteousness: we can Receive Christ as our Life and Everything
September 4, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The third matter in the kernel of the book of Jeremiah is what Christ is to us; He is the righteous Shoot, the Shoot of David, and He is Jehovah our righteousness – He became a man, died for us, became our righteousness, and came into us as the law of the Spirit of life. […]
Our Heart is Deceitful and our Nature is Evil but God can write His Law of Life on us
September 2, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In Jeremiah God exposes what we are in our fallen condition: our heart is deceitful above all things, even incurable, and our fallen nature is unchangeable. Just as the Cushite cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots, so we who are accustomed to doing evil cannot simply change ourselves to do good. The […]
God wants us take Him as the Fountain of Living Waters and Drink of Him day by day!
August 31, 2020 by Leave a Comment
What God wants from us, His people, is that we would drink of Him as the fountain of living waters so that He may be the source of our life and our being; we need to take God as the fountain of living waters by drinking of Him day by day. This week we come […]
As we have a Deep Concern for others, God makes our Tears into a Spring: the Spirit!
August 29, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The best way to care for others is by having a deep concern for them, being concerned for their well-being and going on; furthermore, when we in the church life pass through the valley of weeping, God makes this valley a spring, which is the Spirit. In ourselves we may not really be that emotional […]
Caring for others by being Filled with the Intimate Concern of the Ministering Life
August 28, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Paul’s writing and expression toward the believers was tender and filled with the intimate concern of the ministering life; he didn’t just rebuke or exhort, but he wept, he exhorted with tears, and he was intimately concerned for the saints. Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet; we could say that by nature he was […]
Having Spiritual Emotions and being Tenderhearted for God to be Expressed through us
August 27, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In order that God may be fully expressed through us, we need to have spiritual emotions and be tenderhearted with one another, and we need to be able to serve God with tears, even as Jeremiah and Paul also did. Amen! We don’t know when the Lord’s return takes place; we don’t know when His […]
