Keeping the Sabbath Holy

Wow, God spelt it out clearly. It could not be any more clear. Obey the Sabbath Day and live or disobey and your city will die! Basically He is just asking to keep their commitment to the Old Testament Law. But still they can not even do that. No matter how much they are disciplined they still will not obey!

Jeremiah is led by God to watch a potter form a ball of clay into a pot. When it comes out wrong he lumps it back up and starts over. This is great example of what God can do for us. If we soften out hearts (clay) then He can mold us into what He wants us to be and ultimately what we want to be instinctively. God tells him that this is exactly what He will do with the nation. He will keep re-forming it through judgement. The leaders are so upset they plot against him and plan on attacking him verbally and by ignoring him and his message. Well, Jeremiah strikes back through angry plea to God to strike out his enemy!

Then he is told to purchase a clay jar and to take a few of the leaders and go to the dump right outside the city and break the jar which will symbolize the destruction that God is going to bring upon them if they do not start listening. Then he went back to the temple and preached the same thing as always, but this time, Pashur decided to beat him and put him in jail.

Once he was out the next day, he went through a mix of emotions. He is sad that everyone hates him. He feels as God has lied to him. But still yet he is driven to prophesy and he knows that God is there for him. God can do as He please. And judgment is for sure when we disobey Him. We all know it whether we are Christians or not. We know and feel it. We were made to have that feeling built into us. The best thing we can do is to be completely honest with God about how we feel about everything. Even how we may feel about Him!