Imagine warning a people you love, yet they do not listen. Then seeing your words come true to the letter … Jeremiah warned and then witnessed as Jerusalem was ploughed like a field and its people were taken captive to a foreign land.
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What brought me to the piano to cry out Jeremiah’s words? I think it was seeing my society and my leaders on the same slippery slope as in his day.
It was a time when money superseded morality, when legislation was based on the push of the people with no consideration for God’s words, and when the rulers of the day looked out for their own interests. A time when “you only live once” was on everyone’s lips as they tossed aside any moral compass. In such a time, the voice of party-pooper Jeremy was better ignored - a voice that reawakened the conscience, reminding people of a straight path and a true God, and warned of the disaster that would come through living a crooked life.
To me it would seem that the people of Judah were walking in the ways of Babylon long before its army took them into captivity. They were so engrossed in their own lives that their hearts had become dull to the word of God. This song reminds me to seek first God’s Kingdom and His will … rather than the earthly “kingdom of Babylon” that promises to feed my carnal desires.
This song has burned on my heart for many years. Although unlike Jeremiah … I have neither been put in the stocks to be spat upon by passersby nor shed his tears, but I think the scales of Christian music today are not being honest about Christ’s message, knowing that Jesus himself spoke more words of warning than comfort.
A loving God will always warn His people.
Some verses that inspired the song:
Why has this people slidden back, Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return. I listened and heard, But they do not speak aright. No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turned to his own course, As the horse rushes into the battle. Jeremiah 8: 5-6
His (Jesus’) winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Matthew 3:12
Further Reading:
Jer 8: 6-12 | Isaiah 26:11 | Lam 1 | Prov 1:29-31 | Matt 3:3 | Luke 19:41-45 | 1 John 2:17 |
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