Wednesday, October 19, 2016
“In those
coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together
with the people of Judah. They will come
weeping and seeking the Lord their God. They will ask the way to Jerusalem and
will start back home again. They will
bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be
forgotten.
“My people
have been lost sheep. Their shepherds
have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and can’t remember
how to get back to the sheepfold. All
who found them devoured them. Their
enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against
the Lord, their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.’ Jeremiah 50:4-7(NLT)
I get this
uneasy feeling during political seasons (okay, I get a lot crazy during
political seasons), it’s like being a lost sheep on a journey. Somehow we have lost our way, and it isn’t a
pleasant thought to entertain the notion that we may never find our way
back.
Piled on top
of that sickening lostness in the pit of my stomach is the noise of the
talking (shouting) heads on the news broadcasts, picking apart every syllable
of every candidate’s words, placed in every imagined scenario of doom. The sheep are bleating in fear that all is
lost and the shepherds are hollering over each other’s ideas on how to get the
sheep back home.
It’s a four
year cycle of madness that can only be described as mad-sheep disease (or would
mad-shepherd
sickness be more
accurate?).
Enter
Jeremiah – the weeping prophet. Suddenly
his gloom
and doom message of warning becomes a welcome it will be alright
ray of hope.
The prophet
pictures a sea of sheep wandering back to Jerusalem from exile among the
Babylonians. From conquered to free;
from defeated to home.
I needed
this.
I needed to
remember God’s ways end like this. There
is a reason we sing songs like Victory in Jesus. God is JHWH, the victorious, sovereign,
omnipotent King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
We may
inaugurate a president next January, but he or she will never wear that crown!
For You Today
Come what
may, because of the fear of bleating sheep stirred to a frenzy by the left and
right, or the misdirection, non-direction, and confusion of the arguing, hollering
shepherds, the Shepherd of Peace, that true place of rest, still rules.
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