I haven’t made much progress in Jeremiah, to be honest, the main reason being I didn’t want to get too far into the book without consulting John Calvin. I have the four volumes of his Banner of Truth commentary on Jeremiah, but vol.1 was in a different location and I was only able to retrieve…
The main truth that stands out for me in these opening verses of Jeremiah 2 is the devotion of God’s people, at least at first. We know what’s going to come in the rest of the chapter, namely God’s profound disappointment with his people, but the chapter begins on a high note as it recalls…
Just a couple more comments on Jeremiah 1 before I begin to head into the next chapter. The whole issue of Jeremiah’s call resonates closely with me at the moment because the subject of the call of God is a major aspect of my personal studies and my teaching. I know I have to be…
My constant companion as I get into Jeremiah is Chris Wright’s excellent commentary The Message of Jeremiah: Grace in the end, part of the equally excellent The Bible Speaks Today series, published by IVP. In this jotting let me simply post two quotes from Wright’s comments on the opening verses of chapter 1 “Jeremiah’s mission,…
I still can’t really get past the opening verses of Jeremiah 1 and the underlying, or even underpinning, sense of the sovereignty of God. This is also revealed in the ‘spoiler alert’ that comes with the last words of 1:3 –” …until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month”. In fact that parallels with…
I have just started doing some devotional reading of, and reflection on, Jeremiah, a Bible book of which I have to confess I am woefully ignorant. As I find it helpful for my own discipline and focus to make notes of what I read and learn, I thought I would share some of them here…