Saturday, March 28, 2009

Jeremiah 36: Burning up the scroll

22 It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him. 23 Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe's knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.


27 After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 28 "Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.


32 So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.


COMMENTS:

What parts of my life are like burning up the scroll? When I hear or read God's word and refuse to heed it, it is essentially burning it up -- putting it out of my mind, ignoring it, rejecting it. Are there areas in which I am doing this?

God simply has Jeremiah write another one. He also intensifies and reaffirms the consequences that the Jehoiakim will experience as a result of his willful ingore-ance of God's word. God will not be thwarted.

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