Mighty To Save

“Therefore I bring charges against you again,” declares the Lord.  “And I will bring charges against your children’s children.” – Jeremiah 2:9

Such a statement from the Lord sends shudders down my back.  It scares me so badly I am almost unable to move.  I am crushed and in pieces.  The thought that our actions could bring charges from God upon our children and our grandchildren, those whom we are to protect and provide for, is tremendously humbling and worrisome.

“But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.” – Jeremiah 2:11b

This is the beginning of the charge soon to be clarified.  This breaks the commandment to love your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.  If there is something in your life that you choose to do that you knowingly isn’t allowed by the Word of God, then it is an idol.  You are loving it more than God or His Word.  We can sugar coat it and justify it a million ways and everyone we know might approve of it, but if God’s Word is against it, we are worshiping an idol and we love it more than God.

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” – Jeremiah 2:13

Here are the charges against those who worship idols.  You have turned to something that isn’t God, in fact it isn’t a god at all and it does not provide the source of life, only God is the source of life.  Then you are using it to hold your source of life and it can’t because it is broken and unstable.  Jesus spoke of this when describing the man who builds his house upon the sand.  It crumbles in the storm.  There is nothing in existence that is the source of life and that will always be the source of life apart from the one true living God, Yahweh!! 

The one true living God looks for us and runs to us when we come to Him.  He covers us with His coat of love and puts jewels of wisdom upon our hands.  He provides the best sacrifice for us so that we might be full!  No matter where we have been or what we have done, our God is mighty to save!  Rejoice for yourself and for others today because God is able and willing and capable to do what we cannot do!