NOVEMBER 6, 2023

  "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” 

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées 

JEREMIAH 43-45

‘This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth. 5Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.’ ”(45:4-5) 

HEBREWS 3

12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

JOURNAL 

Our chief task in this life is to live our lives in full unabashed relationship with God. This is our objective, this is what we were created to do. By doing so we gain a power and an understanding of life that is beyond us. It gives us a love that is beyond the trivial love so often spoken of in our world. To give our lives in obedience to God anchors us psychologically and spiritually to the creator of truth and love. There is no more powerful or content place. This rock, this foundation will give stability through the wildest storms, it will give us contentment and peace no matter the circumstances.

Yet to reject God and relationship with him will cut us free from the anchor of truth and love and destine us to drift and be pummeled and scattered by every storm. It is not a pretty fate for it pits us against God himself. 

12I will destine you for the sword,

and all of you will fall in the slaughter;

for I called but you did not answer,

I spoke but you did not listen.

You did evil in my sight

and chose what displeases me.”

ISAIAH 65:12