RTW August 29

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Then all the women present and all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to idols—a great crowd of all the Judeans living in northern Egypt and southern Egypt—answered Jeremiah
Jeremiah 44:15

 

 

My Takeaways 

Something Old

I have honestly never thought about the possibility of me provoking the Lord’s anger 

Provoke: to anger, enrage, exasperate, to stir up, arouse, or feelings, desires, to incite or stimulate

How do we provoke the Lord’s anger?

  • Disobedience
  • Willful sin
  • Forms of idolatry

Rather than provoking God, let’s listen to the Spirit’s pleading

Result of provoking God’s anger

We destroy ourselves. (Jeremiah 44:8)

Something New

Do I provoke anger in others?

Something to Do

Ask God to make me aware of the times I provoke His anger.

 

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2 Comments

  1. Very confronting lesson. Yes I have been provoking Gods anger and I am deeply sorry about it. I did not think about it as provocation for God was far away in my mind. But I did committed sins that I knew where sins. I knew very well that my actions were not in sync with what I have learned up till now about Gods will for His children. I knew it and still I did it anyways because I just felt I had to. Which off course I didn’t. Nobody told me I had to it was just me following blindly what I thought I needed most. It was willful sinning, it was disobedience and it was idolatry for in that moment I was putting someone else on the first place instead of God. I have confessed my sin and I repented. It almost did destroy me and my family. But we are on our way to recovery now. I am glad that God is also a God full of mercy and forgiveness and so I have learned a very important lesson here. God is so loving that He didn’t let it happen that I got completely destroyed…. This scripture is a good lesson. In Jeremiah 42: 5B is stated “For if we obey him, everything will turn out well for us”. And that is something to hang on to I think. This is something I repeat to myself over and over and over again. Thank God for second chances and thank God that He loves us unconditionally….

  2. My Takeaways: Stubborn and Rebellious People

    Something Old: “May the Lord your God, be a faithful witness against us, if we refuse to obey whatever He tells us to do! Whether we like it or not, we will obey the Lord our God..(42:5, 6). But then they don’t obey! This happens time after time. Sounds like what I can be guilty of at times. I promise God that I will listen and change, but I don’t always stay on track. Seeking God’s approval for my desires rather than ask Him for His guidance is always a mistake. I must trust and obey God’s ways even when it doesn’t make sense to me. Isaiah 55:8-9. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

    Something New: I loved Jeremiah 44:7 “…Now the God of Israel asks you: Why are you destroying yourselves?…” When I pursue things that are not of God that is excately what I am doing. God has proven time after time that He is faithful. I need God in the good times and the bad. I need to stop when I found myself going against God’s plans and act upon what I know is true.
    “Wicked people blame God for their misery and attribute their success to what their hands have made, while Godly people seek God in their prosperity and misery; they acknowledge that all that they have comes by grace”.-IvaMay

    Something To Do: Let my past mistakes point me to God’s Way

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