Something to think about

READ: Jeremiah 7:16-19

 In the verses before these, the Lord had been speaking to Judah over and over again about their wrong doings, but they would not listen to change this. They continued to believe lies and make offerings with no fear of the true Living God. God always lets us know when we are doing wrong. He tells us over and over again but we also choose to do the evil anyways. We still lie to one another, we steal from each other, we hurt each other, we talk against each other. We keep our other gods in the down low and we sometimes even doubt that God is the only one. We forget about God and we do offerings to the other gods. We loose faith and we don't read the word of God or seek his presence. We even put him to the side like he is no one in our life.God is tiered of this! He can't put up with us anymore when we are acting this way. Why do we expect for God not to punish us? He will punish us for turning away from him, for ignoring him. How can he not? When one of our kids is not doing what we asked them to do, or they know something is wrong and they do it anyways. What do we do as parents? Do we just let them be, or do we tell them something to correct the issue and have them pay the consequences of their wrong doing?We are the children of God, so in the same way we do with our children, he will have to do with us. We can't go on doing whatever we want and expect God not to do anything about it. He told Jeremiah not to pray for the people that were doing this. He said not to even beg for help because he will not listen anymore. Do we want God to say the same thing about us one day? Do you really want him to just leave you alone?God talks to us over and over again about our evil ways. We have no excuse to give him. He has mercy, love, and patience with us and this is why he tells us over and over again. Sometimes we take tis for granted. We think that he has to forgive us, but the truth is, he doesn't have too. He chooses too because he loves us that much. This does not change the fact that one day he will say no more. There will be a day when he will no longer listen to your prayers, to your begging of mercy and forgiveness. If we continue our evil ways knowing what is right and what is wrong, one day you will realize that all you had was God and you lost him because you didn't want to take him seriously. We can't play with God. We can't fool God and do one thing in church and another out there in the world. God can never be fooled so he is giving us the choice right now. What do we want God to do for us? Do we want him to forget about us and just leave us alone? or do we want him to help us in every day of our lives? Can we really live without him?God says that when we don't listen and do evil knowing the truth, we don't hurt him, we are only hurting ourselves. But not only that, he says we are bringing shame also to ourselves. He is still the all Powerful God and he is good and has done what he should on his end to help us, but we are the ones that don't care. So, he brings to us what we are asking for. Like when he destroys the earth, if we don't listen to him and change our evil ways, guess what's going to happen on that day? We are not going to be helped on that horrible day. He will no longer listen to us and we will spend eternity in the lake of fire. There will be nothing that can excuse us from this because we made the choice when we ignored Gods warnings. The choice is ours today, right now. Do we want Gods anger to come down on us or are we ready to listen and change so we can receive his mercy and love?Written by me, inspired by God!