Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Jeremiah 8:18-22
by: Jennifer Lewis Berg.
Jeremiah was deeply troubled by Judah’s captivity and the sinful waywardness of God’s people. God had basically declared His complete frustration with Israel. The prophets, the priests, all of them, did not know how to behave because it seems they did not understand what God required of them. Jeremiah could find no comfort from their seemingly hopeless situation. Once again, God saw their miserable idolatry and unfaithfulness. And God, through Jeremiah, wondered if there could be anything to soothe, to heal, and, ultimately, to cure Israel of their sin.