DLCM DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL
LIMITING GOD
12TH , JULY 2022
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 35-37
TEXT: Jeremiah 25:12-29
12 ‘Then it will come to pass, when [a]seventy years are completed, that I
will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for
their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual
desolation.
13 So I will bring on that land all My words which
I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah
has prophesied concerning all the nations.
14 (For many nations and great kings
shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to
their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)’ ”
15 For thus says the Lord God of Israel
to me: “Take this wine cup of [b]fury from My hand, and cause all the nations,
to whom I send you, to drink it.
16 And they will drink and stagger and go mad because
of the sword that I will send among them.”
17 Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand,
and made all the nations drink, to whom the Lord had sent me:
18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and
its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing,
and a curse, as it is this day;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his
princes, and all his people;
20 all the mixed multitude, all the kings
of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines
(namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);
21 Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;
22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of
Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across
the sea;
23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in
the farthest corners;
24 all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of
the mixed multitude who dwell in the desert;
25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings
of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
26 all the kings of the north, far and near, one
with another; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face
of the earth. Also the king of [c]Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 “Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says
the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Drink, be drunk, and
vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among
you.” ’
28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup
from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of
hosts: “You shall certainly drink!
29 For behold, I begin to bring
calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly
unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on
all the inhabitants of the earth,” says the Lord of hosts.’
KEY VERSE:
“And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at
thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.” - Jeremiah 25:28
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God is unstoppable!
THE MESSAGE:
Many do not get to know the omnipotence of God until they are mired in near-death adversity. They call upon Him and He mercifully delivers them. That drives them to acknowledge that there is indeed an all-powerful Lord. Others, like Saul of Tarsus, would only come to know Him when He intercepts them as they head for a distant land to persecute His people.
In Jeremiah's day, the godless nations in
the Palestine region, which felt that the sovereignty of the God of Israel was
limited to Jewish territory, experienced His rule over all the universe. After
the Lord gave a charge to Babylon to conquer Judah and exile its citizens as
punishment for its sin against Him, He sent Jeremiah to deliver a message to
other countries outside Israel. They were to drink God's "wine cup of...
fury". It was heaven's judgment against the surrounding nations that maltreated
Israel.
God would always deal with His people when
they act contrary to His will. But to prove that He was not a regional God, He
would not be indifferent to the ungodly works of those outside the orbit of
Israel. If He did not, those nations would think that the God of Israel was
impotent, with no authority over them.
The God of Israel is the God of all flesh
who exercises control over all. Whether unbelievers acknowledge Him or not does
not detract from His omnipotence. He has an appointed time to terminate man's
evil system. Then would He punish His enemies and reward those who acknowledge
Him as the omnipotent Lord.
DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY
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