Control Your Day With Daily Devotions

WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2023

TEXT: Jeremiah 12:1-13

1: You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

2: You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.

3: Yet you know me, Lord; you see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep to be butchered! Set them apart for the day of slaughter!

4: How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.”

5: “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?

6: Your relatives, members of your own family— even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

7: “I will forsake my house, abandon my inheritance; I will give the one I love into the hands of her enemies.

8: My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She roars at me; therefore I hate her.

9: Has not my inheritance become to me like a speckled bird of prey that other birds of prey surround and attack? Go and gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

10: Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

11: It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.

12: Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm, for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe.

13: They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”

(New International Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: JEREMIAH’S QUESTIONS

Jeremiah had a lot of challenges and, even after praying, the situation did not appear to change. He wondered why those who did not fear God lived comfortable lives and were progressing in life.

The Lord made him know that although the wicked may be prospering and the righteous suffering at the end the wicked will not escape God's judgment while the righteous will rejoice in the presence of the Lord.

Look around you, it is possible to see the wicked prospering while you are not.

Note that the Lord knows all about you and the wicked. You will soon see the hand of the Lord, if you remain faithful to Him.

QUESTION: How do you react when things do not seem to be going your way?

PRAYER: Father, arise for my sake and upgrade my faith to belief in You so that I can walk with You, even when things do not appear to be working in my favor. Amen.