Jeroiakim burns Jeremiah's scroll

Jeremiah was directed by God to now put down on a scroll all of his preaching’s. He decided to hire Baruch to help him with this task of writing. Baruch now feeling a bit tired and discouraged from months and months of work has been given perspective. God tells him to be assured that he will be protected. He is now feeling more encouraged and told by Jeremiah that he must go to the temple to read the scroll since he can not. Well once some of the officials from the king heard him reading they had to go back and tell the king. But first they warned Baruch for him and Jeremiah to go and hide before they tell the king.

With that, the king heard of this and decided to burn the scroll. But this did not stop Jeremiah. He told Baruch to get more paper and ink and he would dictate the words once again to him. But this time Jeremiah adds a little note to king Jehoiakims. He will die!

This brings to mind one thing to me. That we must read Gods word daily. That we must use our heart and brain when we read it. We must not just read it to say we have read it. We need to read scripture with a sense of knowing this is God’s word. Not just a bunch of words in a book. And we must try to bury the word deep in our heart. The more we read the more we know and the more we can sense God in everything around us. The more we understand what is expected of us!