Thursday, January 16, 2025

“HE WAS STILL SHUT UP!”

 Jeremiah 33:1-3                    (ESV)


The LORD Promises Peace


“[1] The WORD OF THE LORD came to Jeremiah A SECOND TIME, while “HE WAS STILL SHUT UP” in the court of the guard: [2] “Thus says THE LORD WHO MADE THE EARTH, the LORD WHO formed it to establish it—the LORD is HIS NAME: [3] CALL TO ME and I WILL ANSWER YOU, and will tell you GREAT AND HIDDEN THINGS that YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN.”




Once again I find myself staring at Jeremiah 33:1-3!  GOD is STILL speaking to me and will not let me move on!  This morning the WORDS “HE WAS STILL SHUT UP” are ringing loudly in my head!!!


Jeremiah was in a position where he was confined or detained (according to different translations) “in the court of the guard”.  But the Webster’s Bible Translation says “while he was yet confined in the court of the prison”, which places his status in a totally different light!  Jeremiah was confined in prison, and GOD was speaking to him???  Could we who have always lived in FREEDOM ever imagine being imprisoned, especially if we were a prophet of GOD?  Yet Jeremiah was a Hebrew Prophet and he found himself in prison….with GOD THE CREATOR speaking to him!


Do I find it difficult to listen for ALMIGHTY GOD when everything is not precisely how I feel it needs to be?  Yet Jeremiah was imprisoned and GOD told him “THE LORD WHO MADE THE EARTH, the LORD WHO formed it to establish it—the LORD is HIS NAME: CALL TO ME and I WILL ANSWER YOU, and will tell you GREAT AND HIDDEN THINGS that YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN.”  I AM is instructing you while you are in a position of solitude and peace, instead of hearing in the midst of the noise of “this world”!!!


Sometimes we might need to understand that “HE WAS STILL SHUT UP” might be because we are in PEACE and TRANQUILITY, with no interruptions from the enemy???  We all prefer to live in FREEDOM, but GOD can SEE EVERYTHING, and HE could orchestrate “HE WAS STILL SHUT UP” in order for us to BE STILL???

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