Lift Your Heads from the Sand and Gain Wisdom
Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Jeremiah 28-29. Both of those chapters have Jeremiah confronting the false prophetic voices of his day, the ones who were preaching "peace and prosperity" instead of facing the true moral decline of the leaders and people at that time--and who would not acknowledge the eminent danger of the approaching Babylonians as a result of their sins. These were men who were not consulting the Lord in any way, shape, or form, but rather, tenaciously holding onto the status quo--because they were favored in this system; pure selfishness for their motives. So they preached lies with all their might to persuade and deceive the people and tried to come against Jeremiah to silence him....to no avail. Babylon came and the word of the Lord was fulfilled. You know, the challenging and oft interesting thing about being a prophetic voice of any era is the resistance that will sometimes rise up against the word of the Lord. Oh, there a