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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Jeremiah 2:1-18
The first words which the LORD puts into Jeremiah’s mouth are intended to win back the hearts of His forgetful people . . . a very true picture of our own hearts! It is as if the Lord Jesus were asking us tenderly: "Do you remember the happy time which followed your conversion? How you burned then with zeal and gratitude? True, you were walking then in this world as if in a wilderness, "a land that was not sown", but then I was all sufficient for you. Even if you have forgotten that time, I have remembered it. For this warmth of your affection, this joy of your first love (Revelation 2:4) was precious to Me."
The LORD says, "My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit" (v. 11 end of v. 8). Be honest, dear reader, you who may perhaps have got away from the Lord, has doing that brought you any profit? He is the "fountain of living waters." How foolish to leave Him to hew out "broken cisterns, that can hold no water" or to go and drink from the rivers of Egypt and Assyria, typical of the world (v. 8)! For "whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again" but he who drinks of the water that the Lord Jesus gives, "shall never thirst for ever" (John 4:10; John 4:13-14 JND translation).
