Jeremiah prayed that the disaster he was announcing would not come upon his people. God’s answer is both negative and affirmative. In one sense he would not answer Jeremiah’s prayer. The coming disaster would not be averted. As he says here, even if Moses or Samuel, two great intercessors of Biblical history, were to plead with God for the nation he could not be averted from this course of action. But this was only because the coming disaster was to be the means of their spiritual awakening. It was in this sense that Jeremiah’s prayer would be answered. If you happen to head down a wrong path in life, if your desires should happen to get hijacked and if you are tempted away from the safety of God’s covering then, believe me, any course of action is warranted to get you back on track. We should want God to correct us when we go wrong because even the harshest corrective measure is better than living without God. Because God loves you so much, he will do anything and everything to get you back. But we don’t have to learn the hard way. You can ask God now to show you what you need to know and you can be corrected without having to be thrown into circumstances which force you to face reality. Of course, there are some things that can only be learned through trials, but I am not talking about that sort of thing. I am talking about God’s discipline and reminding you that discipline can be avoided if you obey God in the first place.
Reflect on what God may want to correct in your life.
Read Jeremiah 15
