Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - The Global of the Nazarene's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Thursday, 21 June 2018 "Acknowledge God" by Caleb Reynolds - Jeremiah 9:12-24.

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - The Global of the Nazarene's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Thursday, 21 June 2018 "Acknowledge God" by Caleb Reynolds - Jeremiah 9:12-24.
Jeremiah 9:11 (12) Who is wise enough to understand this?
To whom has the mouth of Adonai spoken,
so that he can proclaim it?
Why has the land perished
and been laid waste like a desert,
so that no one passes through?
12 (13) Adonai answers:
“Because they abandoned my Torah,
which I set before them,
and neither listened to what I said
nor lived accordingly,
13 (14) but have lived by their own hearts’ stubbornness
and by the ba‘alim, as their ancestors taught them —
14 (15) therefore,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot,
the God of Isra’el:
“I will feed this people bitter wormwood
and give them poisonous water to drink.
15 (16) I will scatter them among nations
that neither they nor their ancestors have known.
I will send the sword after them
until I have wiped them out.”
16 (17) Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot:
“Mark this, then summon the mourning women,
so that they will come;
send for those who are best [at mourning],
so that they will come:
17 (18) ‘Have them hurry and wail for us,
so our eyes will be wet from crying,
and our eyelids gush with tears.’
18 (19) For the sound of wailing is heard from Tziyon:
‘We are utterly ruined,
we are completely ashamed,
because we have left the land,
and our homes have been torn down!’”
19 (20) You women, hear the word of Adonai!
Let your ears receive the words from his mouth.
Teach your daughters how to wail,
have each teach her friend how to lament:
20 (21) “Death has come up through our windows,
it has entered our palaces,
it has cut down children in the streets
and young people in the public places.”
21 (22) Say: “Here is what Adonai says:
‘The corpses of people are scattered
like dung in an open field,
like sheaves left behind by the reaper
with no one to gather them.’”
22 (23) Here is what Adonai says:
“The wise man should not boast of his wisdom,
the powerful should not boast of his power,
the wealthy should not boast of his wealth;
23 (24) instead, let the boaster boast about this:
that he understands and knows me —
that I am Adonai, practicing grace,
justice and righteousness in the land;
for in these things I take pleasure,” says Adonai.
24 (25) “The days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will punish all those who have been circumcised in their uncircumcision — (Complete Jewish Bible).
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Whenever our family has moved, we come face-to-face with our priorities. Everything goes in a box, then into the moving truck. We take the pictures off the walls and the books off the shelves. The clothes come out of the closet and the dishes out of the cupboard. When you are moving, everything—whether diamonds or underwear—goes in a box.
The last time we moved, we discovered several boxes we had not opened since our previous move, years earlier. How valuable must those boxes have been? If they were not opened in several years, why should we keep them? Unfortunately, those boxes have successfully made the transition from one attic to another, several hundred miles away.
When my wife and I have gone to be with the Lord, our daughters will go through our boxes. Much of what they find will be thrown away. A few items they may treasure. But compared with knowing the Lord, everything else is just stuff in a box.
What is the focus of your life? Is your priority stuff that will go in a box? Or is your priority knowing Jesus,  who never passes awzy.***
Hymn for Today: "Give Me Jesus" by Fanny J. Crosby.

1. Take the world, but give me Jesus,
All its joys are but a name;
But His love abideth ever,
Through eternal years the same.
Refrain: Oh, the height and depth of mercy!
Oh, the length and breadth of love!
Oh, the fullness of redemption,
Pledge of endless life above!
2. Take the world, but give me Jesus,
Sweetest comfort of my soul;
With my Savior watching o’er me,
I can sing though billows roll.

Refrain: Oh, the height and depth of mercy!
Oh, the length and breadth of love!
Oh, the fullness of redemption,
Pledge of endless life above! 
3. Take the world, but give me Jesus,
Let me view His constant smile;
Then throughout my pilgrim journey
Light will cheer me all the while.

Refrain: Oh, the height and depth of mercy!

Oh, the length and breadth of love!
Oh, the fullness of redemption,
Pledge of endless life above! 
4. Take the world, but give me Jesus;
In His cross my trust shall be,
Till, with clearer, brighter vision,
Face to face my Lord I see.

Refrain: Oh, the height and depth of mercy!

Oh, the length and breadth of love!
Oh, the fullness of redemption,
Pledge of endless life above! 

Thought for Today: Keep pursuing shalom with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14) (Complete Jewish Bible)).

Please pray: For the development of Christian leaders in Equatorial Guinea.
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