DEVOTION
Jeremiah
8:21-22
Since my people are crushed, I am
crushed;I mourn,and horror grips me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?
Jeremiah’s soul and spirit felt
crushed, heavy and wounded for his people, he was mourning for them.
Their concept of sin was deplorable. His heavy heart also came from
the fact that he knew God personally and he knew God was the only
remedy for his people. But, no one could get through them, so they
were like a patient with a sickness who is given medicine to recover
but because of pride, stubbornness, and self-righteousness,
refused.
Like us in the twenty first century,
these people also saw their sin as "a pimple" or a simple
"flaw" because their consciences were shut down. When we
know God intimately, sins become abhorrent to us. Small or big, need
not matter because all we can see is filth and wickedness. We know
and live daily with the same attitude of the prophet Isaiah when he
said in chapter 6:5 “Woe to me! I am ruined! For I am a man of
unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes
have seen the King, the Lord Almighty”
When we are full of sin, meaning we
have been accumulating them with no holy repentance in the heart and
we are living with no conviction from the Holy Spirit, everything we
do is polluted. Even the simplest decision in our life is polluted because our mind is not able to think clearly since our
mental faculty is depraves. We chose earthly things without realizing
we are not Spirit led.
Christ is the appointed remedy, the
balm of Gilead and the physician for our sins. Are you allowing Him
to move freely in your life? You ask how you can do that? Then humble
yourself under His mighty hands in dependence faith and obedience.
Make it a point to go with Him once and for all.
PRAY: Teach us Savior how to
recover from anaemic Christianity and from making this life about us.
Take away our blindness and open the eyes of our hearts in exchange
so that we can see You the invisible God. There is such greatness in
you, empowers us to find the strength to grab onto you while there is
still time. We love you Savior and Redeemer!
In His Love & Service,
M.J. Andre
