Tonight(Nov 9, 2008) our Bible Study/Worship group desided to try and memorize one chapter of the Bible each. We were to pick one that we were not familiar with and one that we had not already studied this past year.
One ambitious young man chose to learn three psalms (22, 23, 26), but most of us were not quite up to that zeal. My choice was Jeremiah 12. Partly because of the opening verse: “Righteous are you , O LORD (Adoni) when I complain to you.” And also because of the fact that the complaint was the false worship in the land.
When I think of all the times that I have gone to the Lord and asked why do they say and do these horrendous thing in your Name and still beleive that they are “righteous”? I have pondered why the evil prosper and the just go hungry. I have lamented that many times the True Word of Salvation has been altered and watered down by justification of sin. So these verses, the lament of Jeremiah for the sins of Israel and her neighbors, has not changed. Only Israel is the whole of the Christian world.
So I will study and memorize these verses, I will put them into my heart. And then I will seek the LORD to examine my own heart to make sure that I am not living in the lie I protest. For if I am to be Holy and Blameless, I must purge myself of all unrighteousness and seek only what is good and well with My God.
When I have completed to memory Jeremiah 12, I will add the footnote to this post. I want you to remember though, I am dyslexic and this will be a challenge for me. Pray that I do well.
